Jahangir Khanzada is a Pakistani politician who has been a Member of the

Provincial Assembly of the Punjab The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani provinces, Pakistani province of Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, which is located in Lahore, the provincial capital. It was established under ...

since August 2018. Previously he was a member of the Punjab Assembly from October 2015 to May 2018.

Early life and education

He was born on 8 July 1977 in

Peshawar Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...

Shuja Khanzada Shuja Khanzada ( ur, ‎; 28 August 1943 – 16 August 2015) was a Pakistani politician and Pakistan Army colonel, who served as the Home Minister of Punjab from 2014 until his assassination on 16 August 2015. As an army officer, Khanzada fo ...

. He has the degree of the Master of Business Administration in Marketing which he received in 2000 from Preston University, Islamabad. He holds British citizenship.

Political career

He was elected to the

as a candidate of

Pakistan Muslim League (N) The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ( ur, , translit=Pākistān Muslim Līg (Nūn) PML(N) or PML-N) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal conservative political party in Pakistan. Alongside the Pakistan Teh ...

(PML-N) from

Constituency PP-16 (Attock-II) PP-1 Attock-I () is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab. Members of Assembly 1970-1977: PP-9 Campbellpur-I 1977-1985: PP-12 Campbellpur-I 1985-2002: PP-12 Attock-I 2002-2018: PP-16 Attock-II 2018-2023: PP-2 Attock-II ...

in by-election held in October 2015. In November 2016, he was inducted into the provincial cabinet of Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and was made Provincial Minister of Punjab for Youth Affairs and Sports. He was re-elected to Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-2 (Attock-II) in

2018 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on Wednesday, 25 July 2018 to elect the members of 15th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. The three major parties Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by Imran Khan, the Pakistan Muslim ...

References

Living people 1977 births Pakistan Muslim League (N) MPAs (Punjab) Punjab MPAs 2013–2018 People from Attock District

Jahangir Nur-ud-Din Muhammad Salim (30 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), known by his imperial name Jahangir (; ), was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 until he died in 1627. He was named after the Indian Sufi saint, Salim Chishti. Ear ...

Punjab MPAs 2018–2023 Pakistani emigrants to the United Kingdom Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom British people of Pashtun descent {{PunjabPK-MPA-stub