Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar
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Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar | |
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.jpg) Mustafa Khokhar in 2013 | |
| Chairman of the Senate Human Rights Committee | |
| In office 11 March 2018 – 10 November 2022 | |
| Member of the Senate of Pakistan | |
| In office 11 March 2018 – 10 November 2022 | |
| Chairman | Sadiq Sanjrani |
| Adviser to the Prime Minister on Human Rights | |
| In office 25 June 2012 – 16 March 2013 | |
| President | Asif Ali Zardari |
| Prime Minister | Raja Pervaiz Ashraf |
| In office 3 May 2011 – 19 June 2012 | |
| President | Asif Ali Zardari |
| Prime Minister | Yusuf Raza Gillani |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 July 1970 |
| Party | AP (2026-present) |
Other political affiliations | PPP (2013–2022) PML(Q) (2008–2013) |
| Parent | Haji Muhammad Nawaz Khokhar (father) |
| Relatives | Taji Khokhar (uncle) |
| Education | Cadet College Hasan Abdal |
Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar (born 13 July 1970) is a human rights activist and former senator from Pakistan. He served as a member of the Senate of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022, representing the Pakistan Peoples Party. He also served as an adviser to the prime minister on human rights from 2011 to 2013. He stepped down from his senate seat in 2022, expressing his discontent with the party’s direction.[1]
His late father Nawaz Khokhar was an early member of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), even being its secretary general for Rawalpindi, before parting ways and joining Nawaz Sharif but ultimately coming back to the PPP camp later on.[2]
Like his father Mustafa is a law graduate, having studied in the United Kingdom.[3]
