Gulzar Khan

Gulzar Khan (Urdu: گلزار خان‎) (died 28 August 2017) was a Pakistani politician who had been a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.

Political career

Khan is a retired senior bureaucrat who had served as Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar,^[1] political agent for South and North Waziristan and chief commissioner for Afghan refugees.^[2][3][4] He also had been the home secretary for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Tribal Affairs Department and chairman of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Service Commission.^[2]

Khan joined PTI before the 2013 general election.^[5] He was elected to the National Assembly on a ticket of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaffrom NA-4 (Peshawar) in Pakistani general election, 2013.^{[3][6][7][5][8]}

In 2014, Khan was elected as a chairman of the group which consisted 13 PTI's members of the National Assembly who opposed to PTI call to resignation from the National Assembly and formed their own group.^[5] He had quit the PTI and stopped attending the party meetings afterwards.^[2] In 2014, Imran Khan asked for disqualification of Khan from the membership of the National Assembly for violating party's discipline.^[9] However, his National Assembly membership was not revoked^[3] after Khan refused to quit his National Assembly seat.^[4]

He has been chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Education, Training and Standards in Higher Education.^[10]

He died on 28 August 2017 in Badaber, Peshawar due to cardiac arrest.