Osman Saifullah

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Senator
Osman Saifullah Khan
Member of the Senate of Pakistan
In office
March 2012 – March 2018
Personal details
NationalityPakistani
Political partyPakistan People's Party
Parent
Alma materStanford Graduate School of Business University of Oxford

Osman Saifullah Khan (Urdu: عثمان سیف اللہ خان) is a Pakistani politician who was a member of the Senate of Pakistan from March 2012 to March 2018.

Early life and education

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Khan was born to Anwar Saifullah Khan.[1] His grandfather, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, was the president in the early 1990s.[2]

He received a master's degree in engineering, economics and management from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1995 and a degree of Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2009.[3]

Political career

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He was elected to the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party in the 2012 Pakistani Senate election.[4]

After he was named in the 2016 Panama Papers leak,[5] it was reported that he could lose his Senate seat for not declaring his offshore companies in the details of his assets submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Zardari picks young Saifullah ignoring heavyweights from Capital". Pakistan Today. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  2. ^ Wasim, Amir (2012-10-23). "GIK's grandson regrets delay in justice". Dawn. Archived from the original on 2017-09-01. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
  3. ^ "Osman Saifullah Khan". Senate of Pakistan. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  4. ^ "PPP contacts N for unopposed Senate slots election". The Nation. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
    - "PPP dominates Senate elections". www.geo.tv. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
    - "Senate elections: Despite drama, upset, PPP comes out on top". The Express Tribune. 3 March 2012. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Another whitener scheme". Dawn. 8 June 2016. Archived from the original on 23 April 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
    - Ali, Kalbe (23 April 2016). "Contradictory information in senators' declarations of assets". Dawn. Archived from the original on 23 April 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Osman Saifullah may lose Senate seat over offshore accounts". The Nation. 24 April 2016. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016.



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