Tahir Sadiq Khan is a Pakistani politician who has 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 January 2023.

Early life

Khan was born into a

Jat The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subse ...

family of the Khattar clan and is married to the sister of Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. He completed graduation from Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul in 1971. After retiring from the

Pakistan Army The Pakistan Army (, ) is the Army, land service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The roots of its modern existence trace back to the British Indian Army that ceased to exist following the partition of India, Partition of British India, wh ...

with the rank of major, he joined Punjab civil service where he served for seven years.

Political career

He was elected to 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 ...

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-12 (Attock-I) 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 36,051 votes and defeated

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. In 2017, he 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 ...

(PTI). He was elected to the

as a candidate of PTI from Constituency NA-55 (Attock-I) and from Constituency NA-56 (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 ...

. He received 145,168 votes from Constituency NA-55 (Attock-I) and defeated Sheikh Aftab Ahmed and received 163,325 votes from Constituency NA-56 (Attock-II) and defeated Malik Sohail Khan, a candidate of

(PML-N). In the same election, he was also re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PTI from

Constituency PP-3 (Attock-III) PP-3 (Attock-III) (Old PP-17) is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab. General elections 2018 In 2018 Pakistani general election, Tahir Sadiq a ticket holder of PTI won PP-3 Attack III election by taking 62,337 votes. ...

. He received 62,337 votes and defeated

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. Following his election, he decided to retain his National Assembly seat NA-55 (Attock-I) and abandon his national assembly seat NA-56 (Attock-II) and Punjab assembly seat PP-3 (Attock-III).

References

Living people Pakistan Army officers Pakistani civil servants Punjab MPAs 1997–1999 Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Pakistan Muslim League (N) MPAs (Punjab) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNAs Pakistan Military Academy alumni Chaudhry family People from Attock District Politicians from Punjab, Pakistan Mayors of places in Pakistan 1950 births {{PunjabPK-MPA-stub