| Raja Nadir Pervez | |
| Office: | MNA for NA-85 Faisalabad-XI |
| Term Start: | 2002 |
| Term End: | 2007 |
| Predecessor: | Constituency Re-Established |
| Successor: | Muhammad Akram Ansari |
| Office1: | MNA for NA-62 Faisalabad-VI |
| Term Start1: | February 15, 1997 |
| Term End1: | October 12, 1999 |
| Predecessor1: | Dildar Ahmed Cheema |
| Successor1: | Constituency Re-Established |
| Term Start2: | November 3, 1990 |
| Term End2: | July 18, 1993 |
| Predecessor2: | Ghulam Mustafa Bajwa |
| Successor2: | Dildar Ahmed Cheema |
| Office3: | MNA for NA-37 Rawalpindi—VI |
| Term Start3: | October 15, 1993 |
| Term End3: | November 5, 1996 |
| Predecessor3: | Raja Zaheer Khan |
| Successor3: | Khurshid Zaman |
| Office4: | MNA for NA-69 Faisalabad-IV |
| Term Start4: | March 20, 1985 |
| Term End4: | May 29, 1988 |
| Predecessor4: | Mian Zahid Sarfraz |
| Successor4: | Faisal Saleh Hayat |
| Office5: | Minister of Communications |
| Term Start5: | August 6, 1998 |
| Term End5: | October 12, 1999 |
| Predecessor5: | Muhammad Azam Khan Hoti |
| Successor5: | Lt. Gen. Iftikhar Hussain Shah |
| Office6: | Minister of Water and Power |
| Term Start6: | 1991 |
| Term End6: | 1993 |
| Office7: | Minister of Interior |
| Term Start7: | July 28, 1987 |
| Term End7: | May 29, 1988 |
| Predecessor7: | Wasim Sajjad |
| Successor7: | Malik Naseem Ahmad |
| Birth Name: | Raja Nadir Pervez Khan |
| Birth Date: | 11 November 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Lyallpur, Punjab British India (Now Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan) |
| Party: | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (2013–present) Pakistan Muslim League (N) (1993–2013) Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (1988–1993) |
| Residence: | Faisalabad |
| Alma Mater: | Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul |
| Profession: | Businessman Politician |
| Allegiance: |  Pakistan |
| Branch: | Pakistan Army |
| Serviceyears: | 1963–1974 |
| Rank: | Lieutenant-Colonel (Stripped from Rank) |
| Unit: | Punjab Regiment |
| Battles: | Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War |
| Awards: | Sitara-e-Jurat |
Major Raja Nadir Pervez Khan (born November 11, 1940) is a Pakistani politician, ex-MP of the Parliament, and former Pakistan Army officer. He participated in Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and is an alleged perpetrator of Barguna massacre among other war crimes.[1] [2] Later, Parvez serevd as a minister in the Nawaz Sharif government during his second tenure. He is the brother-in-law of the former Corps Commander of Quetta Lieutenant-General Tariq Pervez.
He graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul in 1963 and served in Army until 1974. He had served in the army and fought against India in both Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and the 1971 Indo-Pak Winter War. Major Parvez had posted to East Pakistan and was the Company Commander of the 6 Punjab Regiment troops which had boarded PNS Rajshahi, a Pakistan Navy vessel. However, his team had gotten off the vessel and took the position in a designated areas. Major Pervez was inducted in Pakistan Marines Battalion as a weapon specialist. During the conflict, the Maj Raja Nadir Pervez was informed of the attack on PNS Rajshahi, immediately directed an MI-8 helicopter in the vicinity to evacuate the wounded Commanding Officer of Rajshahi and the same was done soon thereafter.
Nadir was awarded the Sitara-e-Jurat for his service in the 1965 war.
See also: Barguna massacre. In the 1971 Bangladesh War, Nadir was deployed as a Major of the 6 Punjub Regiment in the southern parts of East Pakistan.[3] He is alleged to perpetrate widespread genocide and rape against the Bangali people in Patuakhali, Barguna and Pirojpur during that time.[4] [5] He served as the martial law administrator of Patuakhali district and directly ordered the a massacre of 29 and 30 May.[6] [7] [8] Nadir and his company occupied Patuakhali till December, while bulk of his regiment moved to Jessore to halt the Indian advance. He fled Patuakhali on 7 December via the waterways as Mukti Bahini surrounded the town. He later surrendered to the Indian Army personnel in the area after the surrender of the Pakistan Army Eastern command in Dhaka.[9] Nadir was evacuated to India and interned in a prison camp in Fateh Garh (Camp Number 45). Seven months later, he escaped from the camp with four other officers, and returned to Pakistan via Bhutan and Nepal.
The government of Bangladesh identified Nadir as one of the 195 Pakistan Army officers primarily responsible for 1971 Bangladesh atrocities.
Nadir joined[10] the Pakistan Muslim League. He has since been elected Member of National Assembly (MNA) for the terms of 1985–1988, 1990–1993, 1993–1997, 1997–1999 and 2002–2007. He has also served as Federal Minister for Interior during 1987–1988; Minister of State for Water and Power during 1991–1993 and Federal Minister for the Communications during 1997–1999.He left PML-N on April 2, 2013, on the grounds of grievances over the allotment of party tickets in Faisalabad.[11] Almost a month later, on May 5, he joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in a public gathering [''[[jalsa]]] in Faisalabad.[12] [13]
In 2021, the Pandora papers named Nadir as one of the former military officers turned politicians using offshore holdings to transfer their wealth outside of Pakistan.[14] He was alleged to own a British Virgin Islands-registered company that was connected to major transactions “in machinery and related businesses to India, Thailand, Russia and China”. In 2003, his shares in the company were transferred to a trust controlling several offshore accounts.[15] [16]