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Biography
Anjum Aqeel Khan is a Pakistani politician who served as member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
Early life
Anjum Aqeel Khan started his career as a school teacher. He then became a real estate agent, and later a real estate developer.
Political career
He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Constituency NA-48 as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) in Pakistani general election, 2008.
He ran for the seat of the National Assembly from Constituency NA-48 as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) in Pakistani general election, 2013 but was unsuccessful.
Controversies
In February 2011, Khan agreed to reimburse the sum of 5.8 billion rupees after admitting to the Federal Investigation Agency that, as the real estate broker of the National Police Foundation, he caused major financial losses (six-billion-rupee land fraud) to the Foundation. He was arrested in July 2011, but got released shortly thereafter. In November 2011, the police prosecuted Khan again for illegally occupying a lot in Islamabad. Arrested, he finally was bailed out in March 2012.
In 2016, the Pakistani National Accountability Bureau is criticized for not moving forward on Khan's obvious illegal real estate operations.