Rao Muhammad Afzal Khan ( ur, ), (born in 1925 in Kalanaur Punjab Province, now in Haryana Punjab province,

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– 12 May 1992) was a politician in Pakistan. In 1952, he was elected as MPA from

Sahiwal District Sahiwal District (Punjabi language, Punjabi and ur, ), formerly known as Montgomery district, is a Districts of Pakistan, district in the Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab Subdivisions of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. In 1998, it had a population of ...

Tehsil Depalpur. He went on to win election an additional four times as Member of the Provincial Assembly and twice as a Member of the National Assembly in 1985 and 1988.Election Diary 1988

Biography

In 1952, Khan was elected MPA for Sahiwal District. He was re-elected to this position on four occasions. In 1970 he was the only member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab in the Sahiwal District to win election against

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Zulfikar (or Zulfiqar) Ali Bhutto ( ur, , sd, ذوالفقار علي ڀٽو; 5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979), also known as Quaid-e-Awam ("the People's Leader"), was a Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman who served as the fourth ...

's party, the

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(PPP). As a result of this, Bhutto visited Khan to request he join the PPP, which Khan did. Khan then ran for election in 1988 against

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 ...

and won the election by a large margin.

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