Rana Iqbal Ahmad Khan should not be confused with Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan.
| Rana Iqbal Ahmad Khan | |
| Birth Place: | Talwandi, Patiala State, British India (now Punjab, India) |
| Occupation: | Lawyer and politician |
| Parents: | Rana Khurshid Ahmad Khan (father) |
| Party: | Pakistan Peoples Party Pakistan Awami Tehrik |
| Alma Mater: | Islamia College University of the Punjab |
Rana Iqbal Ahmad Khan (Urdu/Panjabi; Punjabi: {{Nastaliq|رانا اقبال احمد خان) is a Pakistani lawyer and former politician who previously served as a provincial cabinet minister in the Punjab government.[1] A veteran member of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), he began his legal career in the mid-1960s and also entered politics at around the same time. He is a practicing advocate in the Supreme Court[1] and a member of the District Bar Association of Gujranwala.[2] More recently, he has been associated with Tahir-ul-Qadri and his Pakistan Awami Tehreek movement.[1]
Khan was born in the village of Talwandi in the Patiala State (now in eastern Punjab), in pre-partition British India. He belongs to a Rajput family and his father Rana Khurshid Ahmad Khan[2] was a zamindar (landlord).[3] Following the partition of India in 1947, his family migrated to Pakistan and settled in the village of Sanhara Geraya in Gujranwala District, Punjab.[3] He is a resident of Satellite Town, Gujranwala.[3] [2]
Khan matriculated from the Government High School in Gujranwala in 1957, following which he studied at the Islamia College in Lahore, graduating in 1961. He later pursued a Master of Arts degree in Persian at the Punjab University in 1963, and completed a Bachelor of Laws at the same university in 1965.[3]
Khan began his legal practice in 1965 at the District Court of Gujranwala.[3] [2] In 1968, he became an advocate in the Lahore High Court.[3] He entered politics at a young age as one of the grassroots members of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP),[3] establishing a working relationship with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto[1] and playing a key role in organising the party's early democratic movement.[3] During his political career, Khan served as a chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party in Gujranwala District and also chaired the Gujranwala Kissan Committee (farmers' committee).[3] He also contested in elections on behalf of the PPP and became a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab in December 1970.[3]
He later became a minister in the cabinet of the PPP-led provincial Government of Punjab, serving in various departments. In recent times, Rana Iqbal has been affiliated with the Pakistan Awami Tehreek, led by the religious scholar and academic Tahir-ul-Qadri. He is a member of the District Bar Association in Gujranwala and is now a senior advocate with the Supreme Court.