Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar
Ghulam Noor Rabbani Khar (Punjabi: غلام نور ربّانی کھر) is a Pakistani politician. He is of the landed gentry and is the head of a family that owns 600 hectares in cotton country. He is a powerful figure within the Pakistan Peoples Party.[1] He was elected Member of National Assembly in 1990 and 1997 from Muzaffargarh. He was also elected member of Punjab Assembly in 1985 and 1988. He served as Provincial Minister of Punjab in Nawaz Sharif Government in Punjab from 1988 to 1990. He is father of Hina Rabbani Khar, the current Foreign Minister of Pakistan. Malik Noor Rabbani Khar is Younger Brother of senior politician, former Governor of Punjab and Chief Minister of Punjab Ghulam Mustafa Khar.
During the 2013 Pakistani general election, Khar was defeated by Jamshed Dasti, in what was described by The Economist as a "humiliating political defeat".[2]
References
- ^ http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21578104-wrestlers-son-overthrows-landed-gentry-gone-wind Pakistan’s waning feudalism: Gone with the wind
- ^ http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21578104-wrestlers-son-overthrows-landed-gentry-gone-wind Pakistan’s waning feudalism: Gone with the wind