Siraj Mohammad Khan (; born 2 December 1947) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from June 2013 to May 2018.

Early life

He was born on 2 November 1947 in Misri Banda, District Nowshera,

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Political career

Khan was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the thre ...

(PTI) from Constituency NA-6 (Nowshera-II) in 2013 Pakistani general election. He received 54,266 votes and defeated a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N). In August 2014, in order to escalate pressure on Prime Minister

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to resign, PTI decided to withdraw their members from the National Assembly. However, Khan defected from party and in a letter to the

Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan The Speaker of the National Assembly (Urdu: اسپیکر قومی اسمبلی); informally as Speaker National Assembly, is the presiding official of the National Assembly of Pakistan– a lower house of the Parliament of Pakistan. The off ...

narrated, "I did not gave my resignation voluntarily, therefore, it should not be accepted". In February 2021, he joined the Awami National Party.

References

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