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Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan

Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan (}}; born 31 July 1954) is a Pakistani politician who served as the Interior Minister from 2013 to 2017 under the third Sharif administration. A senior conservative thinker formerly on a platform on the Pakistan Muslim League (N), Khan had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1985 and May 2018. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly from 2008 to 2013.

Born in Chakri, Khan was educated at the Burn Hall College. Khan has served in various federal cabinet positions since 1988, mostly under the Sharif's administrations. Under the first Sharif administration in 1990, he served as the Minister of Science and Technology; and on second Sharif administration in 1997, he held the cabinet portfolio of Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources. For a short stint, he served in the Gillani administration, he briefly served as the Minister of Food Security and Research with the additional portfolio of Communications Minister. In 2013, he joined the third Sharif administration, he was appointed as the Interior Minister, which he held until the dissolution of the federal cabinet in July 2017 following the dismissal of Sharif by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

After unsuccessfully defended his constituency for the National Assembly, Khan ran for the provincial seat and had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 till January 2023. Provided by Wikipedia