President Mamnoon Hussain Citizenship Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Nationality Pakistan | Preceded by Mubashir Hassan Name Khurram Khan Party Pakistan Muslim League | |
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Full Name Khurram Dastigar Khan Born August 12, 1970 (age 53)
Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan ( 1970-08-12 ) Role Commerce Minister of Pakistan Office Commerce Minister of Pakistan since 2014 Education Bowdoin College, California Institute of Technology | ||
Constituency Gujranwala-II, NA-96 | ||
Khurram dastgir khan commerce minister of pakistan
Khurram Dastgir Khan (Urdu: خرم دستگیر خان; born 3 August 1970) is a Pakistani politician who is the current Minister for Defence, in office since August 2017. A member of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), he previously has served as the Minister for Commerce in the third Sharif ministry from 2014 to 2017.
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- Khurram dastgir khan commerce minister of pakistan
- Federal minister for commerce engr khurram dastgir khan speaking at luncheon event of the us pakist
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Khan studied engineering from the California Institute of Technology and economics at Bowdoin College before being elected to National Assembly of Pakistan in 2008 general election. After getting re-elected to the National Assembly in 2013 general election, he was appointed as Minister for State for Science and Technology, Minister of State for Privatisation and Minister of State for Commerce until he was made Minister for Commerce in 2014.
Federal minister for commerce engr khurram dastgir khan speaking at luncheon event of the us pakist
Early life and education
Khan was born on 3 August 1970.
Khan studied at the St. Joseph's High School in Gujranwala and Cadet College, Hasan Abdal.
Khan attended the Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine from where he holds a degree in Economics and was trained as an electrical engineer at the California Institute of Technology.
Career
In 1999, he was serving as Special Assistant to then Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif until his tenure was terminated during 1999 Pakistani coup d'état staged by Pervez Musharraf.
He ran for the seat of National Assembly of Pakistan from Gujranwala constituency as a candidate of PML (N) in Pakistani general elections, 2002 but was unsuccessful. Reportedly, he was booked for terrorist activities; for beating up two PPP activists at a polling station and for getting a provocative pamphlet published about a rival candidate in separate cases.
From 2006 to 2009, he worked on building his reputation in the PML-N where he eventually became party's central deputy secretary information.
He was elected to the National Assembly for the first time as a candidate of PML(N) in Pakistani general election, 2008. In October 2008, he was elected as Chairman of the Standing Committee of National Assembly on Commerce.
He was re-elected to the National Assembly for the second time as a candidate of PML (N) in Pakistani general election, 2013. Upon PML-N victory in the 2013 general election, Khan was first appointed as Minister of State for Science and Technology. Later, he was made Minister of State for Privatisation as well Chairman of the Privatisation Commission of Pakistan. In December 2013, he was appointed as the Minister of State for Commerce.
In January 2014, he was elevated to the rank of federal minister and was appointed as the Minister for Commerce for the first time. He had ceased to hold ministerial office in July 2017 when the federal cabinet was disbanded following the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after Panama Papers case decision.
Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan, Khan was inducted into the federal cabinet of Abbasi and was appointed Minister for Defence for the first time.