Honorific-Suffix: | Senator |
Saifur Rehman Khan | |
Father Name.: | Amanullah Khan |
Office: | Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau |
Term Start: | 2018 |
Term End: | 2020 |
Party: | Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Birth Date: | 1954 12, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
Status: | Fugitive |
Saifur Rehman Khan is a Pakistani businessman and former politician currently based in Qatar.
Previously, he served as the Chairman of the National Accountabiliy Bureau during Second Sharif ministry. He also had been member of Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N).[1] From 2018 to 2020 he served as the Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau, Pakistan's anti-corruption agency.
A multi-millionaire businessman, he is currently living in Qatar with his family,[2] including his daughter Ayesha who married Nawaz Sharif's grandson Junaid Safdar in 2021 but the couple eventually divorced in 2023.[3]
He was born on 7 December 1954 in Lahore, Pakistan.[4] He obtained a degree in commerce from the Punjab University in 1974.[4]
He is the Chairman of the Redco Group of Industries. Operating in Qatar since 1981, as of 2023 Redco had a workforce of 20,000 employees and engineers, considered the country's largest industrial and contracting group operating.
He had been member of Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N).[5]
He was member of Senate of Pakistan from 1997 to 2000 during the 2nd tenure of Pakistani statesman and politician Mian Nawaz Sharif.
In 2018, Customs Intelligence recovered 21 luxury vehicles from Redco Textile Mills, mill owned by the Saifur Rehman and Qatari ruling family members.[6]
In 2012, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) issued his red warrants and contacted Qatari government with help of Interpol to extradite Rehman to Pakistan. This warrant was subsequently quashed by Interpol.[7] He is facing charges of doing covert operations with help of FIA as the chairman of National Accountability Bureau against his political opponents, doing torture and keeping them under illegal detention.[7]