Gulzar Khan | |
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گلزار خان | |
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 1 June 2013 – 28 August 2017 | |
Preceded by | Arbab Muhammad Zahir |
Succeeded by | Arbab Amir Ayub |
Constituency | NA-4 (Peshawar-IV) |
Majority | 55,134 |
Personal details | |
Died | 28 August 2017 Peshawar, Pakistan |
Nationality | Pakistani |
Political party | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (2013-2014) |
Children | Shandana Gulzar |
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.
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 Musazai, 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 over a difference of opinion as part of a normal democratic process.[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]