Name Mushahid Khan | Children Maryam Aurangzeb | |
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Mushahid Ullah Khan Emotional Speech Joint Session of Parliament | Samaa TV | March 01, 2019
Mushahid Ullah Khan (Urdu: مشاہد اللہ خان) is a Pakistani politician who is the current Minister for Climate Change, in office since August 2017. A member of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), Khan has been a member of the Senate of Pakistan and previously served as Minister for Climate Change in the third Sharif ministry in 2015.
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- Mushahid Ullah Khan Emotional Speech Joint Session of Parliament Samaa TV March 01 2019
- Education
- Political career
- References
Education
He received L.L.B degree from Urdu Law College, University of Karachi in 1997.
Political career
He joined Pakistan Muslim League (N) in 1990.
In 2009, Khan was elected to the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N).
In 2015, Khan was re-elected to the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N).
In January 2015, he was inducted into the cabinet of then Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif and was appointed chairman of the Benazir Income Support Programme with the status of federal minister. However he did not accepted the portfolio. Hence later he was made Minister for Climate Change.
In August 2015, he was forced to resign as the Minister for Climate Change after he, in an interview to the BBC, alleged that Zaheer-ul-Islam wanted to overthrow the civil and military leadership of Pakistan during the 2014 Azadi march.
In 2017, following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Abbasi and was appointed Minister for Climate Change for the second time.