Rai Haider Ali Khan

Rai Haider Ali Khan is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from February 2024 to August 2025 He was also a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, from May 2013 to May 2018 and from July 2018 to January 2023.

Early life and education He was born on 23 March 1967.

He has a degree of Bachelor of Arts which he obtained in 1986 from Government College University, Lahore and has a degree of Bachelor of Laws (LLB) which he received in 1991 from Punjab University Law College. He served as Advisor to Chief Minister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif for Literacy and Non-Formal Basic Education before being appointed Advisor to Chief Minister on Tourism in November 2016.

He was re-elected to Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of the PML-N from PP-101 (Faisalabad-V) in the 2018 Punjab provincial election.

He joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on 2 February 2023.

He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from NA-96 Faisalabad-II as an independent candidate supported by PTI in the 2024 Pakistani general election. He received 134,724 votes and defeated Malik Nawab Sher Waseer, a candidate of PML(N).

On 31 July 2025, Khan and 195 others were convicted by a court in Faisalabad and sentenced to up to 10 years' imprisonment over the 2023 Pakistani protests. On 5 August 2025, Election Commission of Pakistan disqualified him due to his conviction.