Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan

Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan
چوہدری نثار علی خان
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab
In office 26 May 2021 – 14 January 2023
Constituency	PP-10 (Rawalpindi-V)
34th Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control
In office 7 June 2013 – 28 July 2017
President	Mamnoon Hussain
Prime Minister	Nawaz Sharif
Preceded by	Malik Habib
Succeeded by	Ahsan Iqbal
Leader of the Opposition
In office 17 September 2008 – 7 June 2013
President	Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister	Yusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded by	Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
Succeeded by	Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah
Minister for National Food Security & Research
In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008
Prime Minister	Yusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded by	Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan
Succeeded by	Nazar Muhammad Gondal
3rd Senior Minister of Pakistan
In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008
President	Pervez Musharraf
Prime Minister	Yusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded by	Rao Sikandar Iqbal
Succeeded by	Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
Minister for Communications
In office 29 March 2008 – 13 May 2008
President	Pervez Musharraf
Prime Minister	Yusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded by	Muhammad Shamim Siddiqui
Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination
In office 1997–1999
President	Wasim Sajjad Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
Prime Minister	Nawaz Sharif
Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources
In office 1997–1999
President	Wasim Sajjad Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
Prime Minister	Nawaz Sharif
In office 1990–1993
President	Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Prime Minister	Nawaz Sharif
Minister for Science and Technology
In office June 1988 – December 1988
Preceded by	Malik Naeem Khan Awan
Succeeded by	Jehangir Bader
Personal details
Born	(1954-07-31) 31 July 1954 (age 70)[1] Chakri, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party	Independent (2018-present)
Other political affiliations	Pakistan Muslim League (N) (1993-2018) Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (before 1993)
Relatives	Iftikhar Ali Khan (brother)

Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan (Urdu: چوہدری نِثار علی خان; born 31 July 1954) is a Pakistani politician who served as the Interior Minister from 2013 to 2017. He had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 till January 2023.^[2] He however was unsuccessful in winning a National Assembly seat.^[3] A former leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), 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 Army Burn Hall College. Khan has served in various federal cabinet positions since 1988. He briefly served as the Science and Technology Minister in 1988. During Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's first and second tenures, he held the cabinet portfolio of Petroleum and Natural Resources Minister. During the Gillani ministry, he briefly served as the Food, Agriculture and Livestock Minister with the additional portfolio of Communications Minister. In June 2013, during the third Sharif ministry, 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.

He took oath as Member of Provincial Assembly of Punjab on 26 May 2021.