Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan
Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan | |
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| چوہدری نثار علی خان | |
| 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 | Parvez Elahi (as Deputy Prime Minister) |
| Minister for Interior | |
| 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 Opposition | |
| In office 17 September 2008 – 7 June 2013 | |
| President | Asif Ali Zardari |
| Prime Minister | Yusuf Raza Gillani |
| Preceded by | Parvez Elahi |
| Succeeded by | Khurshid 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 |
| 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 |
| Member of Provincial Assembly of Punjab | |
| In office 26 May 2021 – 14 January 2023 | |
| Constituency | PP-10 Rawalpindi-IV |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Party | PTI (2025-present) |
| Other political affiliations | IND (2018-2025) PMLN (1997-2017) IJI (1980-1997) |
| Relatives | Iftikhar Ali Khan (brother) |
| Alma mater | Burn Hall College (BA) |
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.