Zulfiqar Ali Khosa

Zulfiqar Ali Khosa
Acting Governor of Punjab
In office
August 12, 1999 – October 12, 1999
President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Member of the Senate of Pakistan
In office
12 March 2012 – 12 March 2018
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
Constituency General seat from Punjab
Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab
In office
3 July 2008 – 12 March 2012
Constituency PP-243 Dera Ghazi Khan-IV
In office
18 February 1997 – 12 October 1999
Constituency PP-201 Dera Ghazi Khan-III
In office
18 October 1993 – 17 November 1996
Constituency PP-201 Dera Ghazi Khan-III
In office
5 November 1990 – 28 June 1993
Constituency PP-201 Dera Ghazi Khan-III
In office
30 November 1988 – 6 August 1990
Constituency PP-201 Dera Ghazi Khan-III
In office
12 March 1985 – 30 May 1988
Constituency PP-184 Dera Ghazi Khan-I
In office
9 April 1977 – 5 July 1977
Constituency PP-192 Dera Ghazi Khan-VII
Member of the West Pakistan Assembly
In office
9 June 1962 – 8 June 1965
Constituency Dera Ghazi Khan-II
Personal details
Born 20 October 1935
Bahadurgarh, Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan)
Nationality Pakistani
Other political
affiliations
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (2018-2023)
Pakistan Muslim League (N) (1993-2018)
Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (1988-1993)
Independent (1985-1988)
Spouse(s) Nadra Begum
Faryal Khosa
(m. 2014)
Relations Sardar Muhammad Mohiuddin Khosa (grandson)
Latif Khosa (cousin)
Children Dost Muhammad Khosa (son)
Muhammad Saif-ud-Din Khosa (son)

Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khosa (Urdu: ذوالفقار علی کھوسہ; born 20 October 1935) is a Pakistani political leader, former senator and former Acting Governor of Punjab. He represented Punjab, Pakistan in the Senate of Pakistan. Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan has been elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab for eight tenures in 1970, 1977, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997 and 2008. He was also elected to the West Pakistan Assembly in 1962. Khosa also contested for a National Assembly of Pakistan in general election 2018 but lost to Amjad Farooq Khan.

Biography

He comes from a Baloch Khosa tribe. He was born in Bahadurgarh, Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan).

He became the Tumandar of the Khosa in 1935 after the death of his father, Dost Muhammad Khan Khosa.

He was the Governor of the Punjab from 17 August 1999 to 12 October 1999. He was a senator from Punjab, Pakistan, from 2012 to 2018.

He has three sons: Hissam Uddin Khan Khosa, Saif Uddin Khan Khosa, and Dost Muhammad Khosa.