Mushahid Ullah Khan


Mushahid Ullah Khan is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for Climate Change, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. A leader of the Pakistan Muslim League, Khan has been a member of the Senate of Pakistan since March 2018 and previously served as Minister for Climate Change in the third Sharif ministry in 2015.

Early life and education

Khan was born on in 1953 in Rawalpindi.
He did his early education from Islamia High School in Rawalpindi and completed graduation from Gordon College in Rawalpindi.
He received L.L.B degree from Urdu Law College, University of Karachi in 1997.

Political career

He joined Pakistan Muslim League in 1990.
In 2009, Khan was elected to the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League.
In 2015, Khan was re-elected to the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League.
In January 2015, he was inducted into the cabinet of then Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif and was appointed chairman of the Benazir Income Support Programme with the status of federal minister. However he did not accepted the portfolio. Hence later he was made Minister for Climate Change.
In August 2015, he was forced to resign as the Minister for Climate Change after he, in an interview to the BBC, alleged that Zaheer-ul-Islam wanted to overthrow the civil and military leadership of Pakistan during the 2014 Azadi march.
In 2017, following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Abbasi and was appointed Minister for Climate Change for the second time. Upon the dissolution of the National Assembly on the expiration of its term on 31 May 2018, Khan ceased to hold the office as Federal Minister for Climate Change.
He is member of Senate of Pakistan since March 2018.