Rana Umar Nazir Ahmed Khan (; born 9 April 1976) 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 ...

between 2013 and May 2018.

Early life

He was born on 9 April 1976 to

Rana Nazeer Ahmed Khan Rana Nazeer Ahmed Khan (born 10 December 1949) is a Pakistani politician. He studied law and became a successful lawyer and then came into politics. He joined Pakistan Muslim League in 1985. He was Secretary General of PML-N Punjab province in ...

Political career

He was elected to the

as a candidate of

Islami Jamhoori Ittehad The Islami Jamhoori Ittehad ( Islamic Democratic Alliance; acronym: IJI; ur, ) was a right-wing conservative alliance formed in September 1988 to oppose the democratic socialist Pakistan Peoples Party in elections that year. The alliance compri ...

(IJI) from Constituency NA-78 (Gujranwala-V) in

1988 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 16 November 1988 to elect the members of the National Assembly and Senate. The elections saw the resurgence of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) under the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's daughter, B ...

. He received 55,019 votes and defeated a candidate of

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). He was re-elected to the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

as a candidate of IJI from Constituency NA-78 (Gujranwala-V) in

1990 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 24 October 1990 to elect the members of the National Assembly. The elections were primarily a contest between the People's Democratic Alliance (PDA, a four party alliance led by the ruling Pakistan Pe ...

. He received 65,836 votes and defeated a candidate of

Pakistan Democratic Alliance 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 i ...

(PDA). In September 1991, he was appointed as Minister of State for Cooperative and Forestry in the federal cabinet of

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi language, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime ...

. In January 1992, he was given the additional ministerial portfolio of Minister of State for Population Welfare. He served at both position until July 1993. He ran for the seat of the National Assembly 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 NA-78 (Gujranwala-V) in

1993 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 6 October 1993 to elect the members of National Assembly. The elections took place after both the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan resigned to resolve a power struggle. Prior ...

but was unsuccessful. He received 52,093 votes and lost the seat to a candidate of PPP. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-78 (Gujranwala-V) in

1997 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 3 February 1997 to elect the members of National Assembly. The elections were a fierce contest between Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led by pre-election Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Mus ...

. He received 69,009 votes and defeated a candidate of PPP. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of

Pakistan Muslim League (Q) The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid e Azam Group) ur, ; ''Pākistān Muslim Līg (Qāf)'', Acronyms: PML(Q), PML-Q, PMLQ, "Q League") is a Conservative nationalist political party in Pakistan. As of the 2018 parliamentary election, it has a re ...

(PML-Q) from Constituency NA-99 (Gujranwala-V) in 2002 Pakistani general election. He received 62,209 votes and defeated a candidate of PPP. In 2007, he quit PML-Q to join PML-N. He ran for the seat of the National Assembly as a candidate of

Jamhoori Wattan Party The Jamhoori Wattan Party ( ur, جمہوری وطن پارٹی, lit=Republican National Party) is a political party in Balochistan, Pakistan. The party has split into two factions, with the non-dominant one led by Baramdagh Bugti splitting off to ...

from Constituency NA-99 (Gujranwala-V) in

2008 Pakistani general election 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

but was unsuccessful. He received 690 votes and lost the seat to, his father,

, a candidate of PML-N. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-99 (Gujranwala-V) in

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 ...

. He received 97,143 voted and defeated Chaudhry Zulifqar Bhindar, a candidate of PPP. In May 2018, he quit PML-N and joined

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 ...

References

Living people Pakistan Muslim League (N) politicians Politicians from Punjab, Pakistan Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 1976 births Pakistani MNAs 2002–2007 Pakistani MNAs 1988–1990 Pakistani MNAs 1990–1993 Pakistani MNAs 1997–1999 {{Pakistan-MNA-stub