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{{short description|Pakistani politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-suffix =
| name = Babar Nawaz Khan
| office = Member of the [[National Assembly of Pakistan]]
| term_start = 6 November 2015
| term_end = 31 May 2018
| constituency = [[Constituency NA-19|NA-19 (Haripur)]]
| image =
| birth_date = 24 August 1986
| birth_place = Haripur
| party = [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)]]
| nationality = Pakistani
}}

'''Babar Nawaz Khan''' ({{Lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|بابر نواز خان}}}}) born 24 August 1986) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the [[National Assembly of Pakistan]], from November 2015 to May 2018. Babar Nawaz Khan was born to a [[Hindko]] Speaking family of Hazara in [[Haripur, Pakistan]] in 1986. He is the Son of A Great Leader "Shaheed e Awam" Akhtar Nawaz Khan.

== Early life and education ==
He was born in Haripur in 1986. He was educated at the Jinnah Jame High School & College and received FSC (Pre Engineering Degree) from Board of Intermediate Abbottabad.

==Political career==

He ran for the seat of the [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly]] as an independent candidate from [[Constituency PK-50 (Haripur-II)]] in by-polls held in January 2014, but was unsuccessful. He received 24,000 votes and lost the seat to [[Akbar Ayub Khan]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dawn.com|first1=APP |title=By-polls: PML-N wins NA-69 Khushab, PTI claims PK-50 Haripur|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1082163|access-date=29 April 2018|work=DAWN.COM|date=23 January 2014}}</ref>

Khan was elected to the [[National Assembly of Pakistan]] as a candidate of [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)]] from [[Constituency NA-19|Constituency NA-19 (Haripur)]] in a by-elections held in August 2015. He received 137,700 votes and defeated a candidate of [[Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf]].<ref>{{cite news|title=PML-N's Babar Nawaz wins NA-19 by-poll: unofficial result|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1200816|access-date=2 March 2017|work=DAWN.COM|date=16 August 2015|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303123316/https://www.dawn.com/news/1200816|archive-date=3 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=PML-N candidate wins NA-19 by-poll: unofficial results|url=https://www.geo.tv/latest/5302-pml-n-candidate-wins-na-19-by-poll-unofficial-results|access-date=2 March 2017|work=www.geo.tv|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303124724/https://www.geo.tv/latest/5302-pml-n-candidate-wins-na-19-by-poll-unofficial-results|archive-date=3 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=PMLN destroys PTI in NA-19 Haripur by-poll {{!}} SAMAA TV|url=https://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2015/08/pmln-destroys-pti-in-na-19-haripur-by-poll/|access-date=3 March 2017|work=Samaa TV|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304035245/https://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2015/08/pmln-destroys-pti-in-na-19-haripur-by-poll/|archive-date=4 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=PML-N wins Haripur by-poll|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1200967|access-date=19 March 2017|work=DAWN.COM|date=17 August 2015|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320053915/https://www.dawn.com/news/1200967|archive-date=20 March 2017}}</ref> During his tenure as Member of the National Assembly, he served as chairman of Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Human Rights.<ref>{{cite news|title=PM allows gas connections to areas of influential politicians|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1316837|access-date=8 April 2017|work=DAWN.COM|date=25 February 2017|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330130546/https://www.dawn.com/news/1316837|archive-date=30 March 2017}}</ref> Babar Nawaz Khan enjoyed the support of 50% of the youth vote from Haripur. Singer Rafaqat Ali awan also made a song for Babar Nawaz Khan to support him in General Election 2018.

In 2018 Pakistani general election, [[Omar Ayub Khan]] defeated PML-N's candidate Babar Nawaz Khan to re-elected to the National Assembly from Constituency [[NA-17 (Haripur)]] as a candidate of PTI.

Babar Nawaz Khan's greatest achievement in his tenure from 2015 to 2018 is supply of Sui Gas to more than 600 villages of Haripur. Khan was Youngest Parliamentarian during former government tenure.

==References==
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