Khan entered politics in the
1970 general election, contesting unsuccessfully for a seat in the
National Assembly as a
Pakistan Muslim League (PML) candidate. He received 60,776 votes and defeated Muhammad Siddique Randhawa, a
PNA candidate, by a margin of 15,000 votes. His tenure lasted from March to July, as a result of the
military coup of 1977 which led to the dissolution of the assembly. He did not stand in the non-party
election of 1985, a poll boycotted by the PPP during martial law, in which the constituency was won by Muhammad Hanif Ansari. Following a return to democracy in the
1988 general election, Khan contested from the newly delimited constituency of NA-63 (Faisalabad-VII) and was re-elected. He received 54,251 votes and defeated
Akram Ansari, an
IJI candidate, by a margin of over 8,000 votes. He served his second term in parliament from November 1988 until the completion of his tenure in August 1990. In October 2007, Khan parted ways with the PPP and became a member of the
Pakistan Muslim League (N). In the
2008 general election, he campaigned from
NA-81 (Faisalabad-VII). He received 23,305 votes and placed third in the poll behind runner-up
Nisar Ahmad Jutt of the
PML-Q, losing to PPP's winning candidate
Chaudhry Saeed Iqbal. In the
2013 general election, he joined the
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and competed from
NA-82 (Faisalabad-VIII). He received 36,373 votes, losing to PML-N's
Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan by a margin of about 90,000 votes. ==Personal life==