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Shuja khanzada biography

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Col. (R) Shuja Khanzada

PP-16 (Attock-II)

Assembly Tenure: 2013-2018 (16th Assembly)

  • Status

    • Passed Away

  • Academic Qualifications
  • Party Affiliation
    • Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)
    (See other MPAs of this party)
  • Email
    • shujakhanzada13@hotmail.com
  • Father's/Husband's Name

    • Yousaf Khanzada

  • Marital Status

    • Married

  • Children

    • 3

  • Date of Birth

    • 28th August 1943

  • Place of Birth

    • Shadi Khan

  • Religion

    • Islam

  • Took oath on

    • 1st June 2013

Passed Away

Personal Career & Interests

Col (Retd) Shuja Khanzada (T.Bt.) son of Mr Yousaf Khanzada was born on August 28, 1943 at Shadi Khan. He comes of Yousafzai clan of Pathans. He graduated in 1966 from Islamia College, Peshawar. He was commissioned in Pakistan Army in 1967 and participated actively in 1971 Indo-Pak War. He served as Instructor/Staff Appointment during 1974-78, 1982-83, commanded 13 Lancers during 1983-85 and was awarded gallantry award “Tamgha-e-Basalat” in 1988. He was amongst the first few to reach Siachin Glacier in 1983. He was posted as Military Attache to t

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Assassination of Shuja Khanzada

Bombing in Shadikhan, Pakistan in 2015

On 16 August 2015, two suspected suicide bombers detonated explosives at the home office of Punjab Interior Minister Shuja Khanzada in the Attock District village of Shadikhan, 80 km (50 mi) from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. The blasts killed the minister and 18 other people; at least 17 people were injured and taken to hospitals.[2][3][4][5]Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), a Deobandi militant group with ties to Al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack,[6] and it was later determined that Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan was also involved.

Attack

On Sunday, 16 August 2015, 71-year-old Shuja Khanzada was meeting with relatives and friends at his home office in the village of Shadi Khan to condole the death of a relative who had died in the United Kingdom, when the attack was perpetrated by two men strapped with a combined 15 kg (33 lb) of explosives. According to the initial investigation, the bombers' intent was to collapse the

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Shuja Khanzada

Pakistani officer and politician (1943–2015)

ColonelShuja KhanzadaHSTBt (Urdu: شجاع خانزاده‎; 28 August 1943 – 16 August 2015) was a Pakistani politician and Pakistan Army colonel, who served as the Home Minister of Punjab from 2014 until his assassination on 16 August 2015.[3]

As an army officer, Khanzada fought in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war, before partaking in the Siachen conflict in 1983. Retiring from the military, Khanzada entered politics in 1996. He was elected to the Punjab Provincial Assembly thrice, in 2002, 2008, and 2013; the latter as a PML (N) candidate from his native constituency in Attock.[3][4] Appointed Home Minister in 2014, Khanzada spearheaded the campaign against terrorism and sectarian militancy in Punjab.

On 16 August 2015, Khanzada was assassinated in a suicide attack at his political office in Shadi Khan, Attock. The militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) claimed responsibility for the attack, in retaliation for the killing of LeJ chief Malik Ishaq during Khanzada's tenure.[5][6

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