Noor Alam Khan (

Pashto Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...

/ ur, نور عالم خان) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...

from August 2018 till August 2023. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 2008 to 2013. He was a member of the

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the thre ...

(PTI) from 2018 to 2022 and the

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded ...

(PPP) from 2008 to 2018. He was one of the 14 dissident members of the ruling PTI who were given show-cause notices by the PTI for allying with the opposition before the

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. He has now decided to join JUI-F.

Political career

He was elected to the

from Constituency NA-3 (Peshawar-III) as a candidate of the

(PPP) in the

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. He received 27,038 votes and defeated Muhammad Hasham Babar of the

Awami National Party The Awami National Party (ANP; ur, , ps, اولسي ملي ګوند; lit. ''People's National Party'') is a Pashtun nationalist, secular and leftist political party in Pakistan. The party was founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986 and its curr ...

(ANP). During the tenure, he served as the federal parliamentary secretary for commerce. In 2012, he was named the richest known member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, with his declared assets being more than PKR 32 billion. He owned 200 acres of prime land (for PKR 160 million per acre) 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 ...

, gold ornaments worth PKR 11.6 million, two vehicles, and a house. He contested the

2013 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on Saturday 11 May 2013 to elect the members of the 14th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. The three major parties were the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) led by Nawaz Sharif, t ...

from NA-3 (Peshawar-III) as a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) but stood fourth by obtaining 22,045 votes. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the

(PTI) from Constituency

NA-27 (Peshawar-I) NA-28 Peshawar-I () is a constituency that elects one member to the National Assembly of Pakistan. Area During the delimitation of 2018, NA-27 (Peshawar-I) acquired areas from NA-2 (Peshawar-II) and NA-3 (Peshawar-III), the areas of Peshawar whic ...

in the

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 ...

. He received 71,158 votes and defeated

Haji Ghulam Ali Haji Ghulam Ali () is a Pakistani people, Pakistani politician and a member of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) who is currently serving as the 34th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in office since 23 November 2022. He has previously served as the Mayor ...

of the

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(MMA). He was one of several dissident members of the ruling PTI who had said they would vote against their party's chairman,

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, in the no-confidence motion against him. However, they did not have to vote at the end as the opposition alliance, the

Pakistan Democratic Movement The Pakistan Democratic Movement ( ur, پاکستان ڈیموکریٹک موومنٹ), or PDM, is a coalition of political parties in Pakistan. It was founded in September 2020 as a movement against then prime minister Imran Khan, accusing his ...

(PDM), managed to gather enough votes by itself to oust prime minister Imran Khan on 10 April 2022. On 23 December 2023, he decided to join the

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (Fazl) also Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) or simply as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Urdu: ; ; JUI-F) is a Deobandi Sunni political party in Pakistan. Established as the ''Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam'' in 1945, it is the result o ...

(JUI(F)).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Noor Alam Living people Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013 Pakistan People's Party politicians Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNAs Year of birth missing (living people)