Rai Haider Ali Khan | |
Birth Date: | 23 March 1967 |
Birth Place: | Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan |
Office: | Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan |
Term Start: | 29 February 2024 |
Constituency: | NA-96 Faisalabad-II |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Party: | PTI (2023-present) |
Otherparty: | PMLN (2013-2023) |
Term Start1: | 15 August 2018 |
Term End1: | 14 January 2023 |
Native Name Lang: | ur |
Native Name: | راۓ حیدر علی خان |
Term Start2: | 29 May 2013 |
Term End2: | 31 May 2018 |
Constituency1: | PP-101 Faisalabad-V |
Office1: | Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab |
Rai Haider Ali Khan is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024. He was also a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, from May 2013 to May 2018 and from July 2018 to January 2023.
He was born on 23 March 1967.[1] He has a degree of Bachelor of Arts which he obtained in 1986 from Government College University, Lahore and has a degree of Bachelor of Laws which he received in 1991 from Punjab University Law College.
He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) from PP-54 (Faisalabad-IV) in the 2013 Punjab provincial election.[2] [3] He served as Advisor to Chief Minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif for Literacy and Non-Formal Basic Education[4] before being appointed as Advisor to Chief Minister on Tourism in November 2016.[5]
He was re-elected to Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of the PML-N from PP-101 (Faisalabad-V) in the 2018 Punjab provincial election.[6]
He joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on 2 February 2023.[7]
He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from NA-96 Faisalabad-II as an independent candidate supported by PTI in the 2024 Pakistani general election. He received 134,724 votes and defeated Malik Nawab Sher Waseer, a candidate of PML(N).[8]