Gulzar Khan (politician)

Gulzar Khan (Urdu: گلزار خان‎) (died 28 August 2017) was a Pakistani bureaucrat-turned-politician who had been a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2013 to August 2017.

Gulzar Khan
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
1 June 2013 – 28 August 2017
Preceded byArbab Muhammad Zahir
Succeeded byArbab Amir Ayub
ConstituencyNA-4 (Peshawar-IV)
Majority55,134
Personal details
Died28 August 2017
Peshawar, Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
Political partyPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (2013-2014)
Parliament House Islamabad

Political career

Khan as bureaucrat served as Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar,[1] Political Agent for South and North Waziristan and Commissioner for Afghan refugees.[2][3][4] He also had been the home secretary for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Tribal Affairs Department and chairman of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Service Commission.[2]

Khan joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) before the 2013 Pakistani general election[5] and was allocated the party ticket to contest the 2013 general election from Constituency NA-4 (Peshawar-IV).[6] He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of PTI from Constituency NA-4 (Peshawar-IV) in 2013 general election.[3][7][8][5][9] He received 55,134 votes and defeated Nasir Khan Mosazai, a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N).[10]

In 2014, Khan was elected as a chairman of a group which consisted of 13 PTI's members of the National Assembly who opposed a PTI call to resign from the National Assembly during the Azadi march.[5] He had quit the PTI and stopped attending the party meetings afterwards.[2] In 2014, Imran Khan asked for disqualification of Khan from the membership of the National Assembly for violating party's discipline.[11] However, his National Assembly membership was not revoked[3] after Khan refused to quit his National Assembly seat.[4]

During his tenure as member of the National Assembly, he served as chairman of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Education, Training and Standards in Higher Education.[12]

He died on 28 August 2017 after suffering from cardiac arrest in his native town, Masho Gogar in Badaber.[2][1][3]

References
  1. "PTI MNA Gulzar Khan passes away". www.geo.tv. 28 August 2017. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  2. "MNA Gulzar Khan passes away". www.thenews.com.pk. 29 August 2017. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  3. "Dissident PTI's lawmaker Gulzar Khan passes away". Daily Pakistan Global. 28 August 2017. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  4. Chaudhry, Fahad (28 August 2017). "Dissident PTI lawmaker Gulzar Khan passes away". DAWN.COM. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017.
  5. "'Angry' PTI MNAs opposed to resignation form group". DAWN.COM. 24 August 2014. Archived from the original on 14 March 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  6. "PTI list of candidates". The Express Tribune. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  7. "PTI wins two more NA seats from Peshawar". Express Tribune. 11 May 2013. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  8. "Pakistan General Elections 2013 - Detailed results". DAWN.COM. 12 May 2013. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  9. "Higher voter turnout seen in Peshawar". DAWN.COM. 14 May 2013. Archived from the original on 14 March 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  10. "2013 election result" (PDF). ECP. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2018. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
  11. "Imran disowns dissident PTI MNAs". DAWN.COM. 27 September 2014. Archived from the original on 18 March 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  12. "Direct talks with TTP: Gulzar Khan to represent PTI on new committee - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 11 March 2014. Archived from the original on 14 March 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
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