Alamgir Khan (politician)
Pakistani politician and activist
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Alamgir Khan (Urdu: عالمگیر خان) is a Pakistani activist and politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from October 2018 till January 2023. Khan belongs to the Mahsud tribe of South Waziristan currently living in Karachi, Pakistan.
Alamgir Khan | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
| In office 29 October 2018 – 17 January 2023 | |
| Constituency | NA-243 (Karachi East-II) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Party | PTI (2009-present) |
On 18 December 2021, Khan was injured at a blast at a private bank branch in the Sher Shah area of Karachi.[1]
Activism
He is the founder of his own organization named as Fixit.[2] While pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree from Iqra University, Khan started a campaign in January 2016 to spray-paint the portrait of then Chief Minister of Sindh Qaim Ali Shah alongside uncovered sewer holes and garbage dumps in various part of Karachi.[3][2] The campaign, called Fix It, achieved wide coverage.[4][5][6]
On 25 February 2016, he was arrested by the police after he attempted to empty the garbage bins outside the Sindh Chief Minister House in Karachi.[7] The next day, he was released on bail.[8] In March 2016, a city court in Karachi indicted him in a case of wrongful restraint.[9][6]
Khan was also briefly arrested after a clash between FixIt volunteers and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) workers at Teen Talwar in June 2019.[10]
Political career
In August 2018, Khan was allocated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ticket to contest the by-election from Constituency NA-243 (Karachi East-II).[11]
He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of PTI from Constituency NA-243 (Karachi East-II) in a by-election held on 14 October 2018.[12][13]
External links
- "Mr. Muhammad Alamgir Khan", Personal Profile, National Assembly of Pakistan, retrieved 22 July 2022