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Anjum Aqeel Khan

politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ33190093 ↗
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Anjum Aqeel Khan is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024. He previously served in this position from 2008 to 2013.

Early life

Khan started his career as a school teacher. He then became a real estate agent, and later a real estate developer.

Political career

He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Constituency NA-48 (Islamabad-I) as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) in the 2008 Pakistani general election. He received 61,480 votes and defeated Syed Israr Hussain, a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

He ran for the seat of the National Assembly from Constituency NA-48 (Islamabad-I) as a candidate of PML-N in the 2013 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 52,205 votes and lost the seat to Javed Hashmi.

In May 2024, a detailed audit by PATTAN-Coalition38 revealed that he received fewer votes in the 2024 elections compared to his rival PTI-backed independent candidate, Amir Masood, who received more votes.

Controversies

In February 2011, Khan agreed to reimburse the sum of 5.8 billion rupees after admitting to the Federal Investigation Agency that, as the real estate broker of the National Police Foundation, he caused major financial losses (six-billion-rupee land fraud) to the Foundation.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anjum Aqeel Khan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.