Osman Saifullah Khan () is a Pakistani politician who was a member of the

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from March 2012 to March 2018.

Early life and education

Khan was born to

Anwar Saifullah Khan Anwar Saifullah Khan (; born 7 June 1945) is a Pakistani politician and industrialist. As a member of the Pakistan Muslim League (Junejo), he served in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's cabinet as Federal Minister of Environment and Urban Affairs ...

. His grandfather,

Ghulam Ishaq Khan Ghulam Ishaq Khan (20 January 1915 – 27 October 2006), commonly known by his initials GIK, was a Pakistani bureaucrat, politician and statesman who served as the seventh President of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993. He previously served as Chairm ...

, was the president in the early 1990s. He received a master's degree in engineering, economics, and management from

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, in 1995 and a degree of Master of Business Administration from the

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in 2009.

Political career

He was elected to the

as a candidate of the

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in the

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. After he was named in the 2016

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leak, it was reported that he could lose his Senate seat for not declaring his offshore companies in the details of his assets submitted to the

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References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni Pakistani senators (14th Parliament) Pakistan People's Party politicians People named in the Panama Papers Osman {{Pakistan-senator-stub