Aleem Khan

Abdul Aleem Khan (born 5 March 1970) is a Pakistani politician and businessman from Lahore. Abdul Aleem Khan currently serves as a member of the National Assembly after being elected from Constituency NA 117, Shahdara Lahore in the general elections held on 8 February 2024. Abdul Aleem Khan owns PEMRA Samaa TV and Vision Group. He was also the Senior Minister of Punjab and Minister of Food from 2020 to 2021. He also served as a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 to 2021. He announced his separation from politics on Twitter in a tweet. Later in a statement to the media, he said that he had no intentions of joining politics again and that he would focus on the welfare through the Abdul Aleem Khan Foundation. In June 2023 he launched the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party along with Jahangir Khan Tareen. He is a founding member and the incumbent president of the party.

He held Senior Minister of the Punjab and Minister for Local Government & Community Development portfolios from 2018 to 2019 under the Usman Buzdar government, but stepped down after his arrest in an alleged corruption case involving offshore companies in the Panama Leaks and assets beyond means. He was member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 2003 to 2007 and served as Provincial Minister for Information Technology of Punjab during the same period. Provided by Wikipedia