Amjad Farooq Khan | |
Office: | Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan |
Term Start: | 13 August 2018 |
Term End: | 10 August 2023 |
Constituency: | NA-190 (Dera Ghazi Khan-II) |
Term Start1: | 1 June 2013 |
Term End1: | 31 May 2018 |
Constituency1: | NA-171 (D.G.Khan-I) |
Birth Date: | 4 September 1950 |
Birth Place: | Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Relations: | Zulfiqar Ali Khosa (Cousin) Dost Muhammad Khosa (Nephew) Latif Khosa (Cousin) Muhammad Saif-ud-Din Khosa (Nephew) |
Party: | PTI (2018-2022) Independent (2018) PMLN (1993-2018) Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (1988-1993) Pakistan Muslim League (1985-1988) |
Sardar Muhammad Amjad Farooq Khan Khosa (; born 4 September 1950) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till August 2023. Previously he was a member of the National Assembly between 1990 and May 2018 and was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 1985 to 1990 and again from 2008 to 2013.
He was born on 4 September 1950 in Dera Ghazi Khan.[1] According to PILDAT, he was born on 1 January 1949.[2]
He graduated from Government College University. He first obtained degree of Bachelor of Arts and then received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1971 from the Punjab University Law College.
He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from Constituency PP-187 (Dera Ghazi Khan) in 1985 Pakistani general election.[3]
He ran for the seat of the National Assembly as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) from Constituency NA-132 (Dera Ghazi Khan) in 1993 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 65,002 votes and lost the seat to Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din Anwar, a candidate of PPP.[4]
He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-132 (Dera Ghazi Khan) in 1997 Pakistani general election. He received 73,302 votes and defeated Sardar Mansoor Ahmad Khan, an independent candidate.
He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-171 (D.G.Khan-I) in 2013 Pakistani general election.[5] [6] [7] [8] He received 62,849 votes and defeated Khawaja Sheraz Mehmood.[9]
He was re-elected to the National Assembly as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-190 (Dera Ghazi Khan-II) in 2018 Pakistani general election.[10] Following his successful election, he announced to join Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in August 2018.[11]
See main article: Taunsa Sharif bombing. In October 2015, seven people were killed after a bomb exploded inside the political office of Khan in Taunsa tehsil, District DG Khan. Khan was not present in his office at the time of the blast. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan splinter group Jamaat Ul Ahrar claimed the responsibility for the attack.[12]