Rana Afzal Khan

His elder daughter, Aliya Afzal Khan, is a businesswoman and politician in the United Kingdom who has served as Councillor for Palace & Hurlingham since May 2022, and Co-CEO of Edison Technologies since July 2020. His sons, Inaam Afzal Khan and Ihsaan 'Sunny' Afzal Khan, are businessmen based in Faisalabad whereas his fourth child, Hina Afzal Khan, is a doctor who lives in the United States. Ihsaan Afzal Khan additionally serves as a PML-N leader, member of the party's Central Working Committee, Additional General Secretary of the National Youth Wing, and member of the Economic Advisory Council.

After the 2018 General Election, Khan served as Senior Leader of PML-N and regularly appeared on news channels to discuss the day's political events. It was speculated that he would attempt to return to elected office in the 2023 general election, as a Senate candidate.

In December 2013, he was appointed Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization. After Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar took a medical leave in November 2017 before stepping down from the office, Khan was considered for the slot of Minister of State for Finance. After pressure on the federal government to fill the office of finance minister which was vacant for a month, Khan was inducted on 22 December 2017 into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi after he was approved for the appointment of Minister of State for Finance with the additional charge of economic division. Khan said that Ishaq Dar recommended his name for the slot of minister of state for finance. Khan's appointment came at time when country was advancing towards a balance of payment crises. He took oath as minister of state for finance and Economic Affairs on 26 December. Upon the dissolution of the National Assembly on the expiration of its term on 31 May 2018, Khan ceased to hold the office as Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs.

He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-82 (Faisalabad-VIII) in 2013 Pakistani general election. He received 126,426 votes and defeated a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

Khan was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-66 (Faisalabad-XVI) in 2008 Pakistani general election. He received 34,487 votes and defeated Riaz Shahid, a candidate of PPP.

Khan ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-66 (Faisalabad-XVI) in 2002 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 17,779 votes and lost the seat to Riaz Shahid, a candidate of PPP.

Khan was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) from Constituency PP-55 (Faisalabad) in 1997 Pakistani general election. He received 32,402 votes and defeated Raja Riaz Ahmad, a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

Khan received B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the NED University of Engineering and Technology in 1971 and completed MA in Political Science from the University of Balochistan.

Khan served in the Pakistan Army as a captain from 1971 to 1976.

Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan (Urdu: رانا محمد افضل خان; 22 February 1949 – 27 September 2019) was a Pakistani politician, businessman and Army officer who served as leader of PML-N, and Minister of State for Finance and Economic Affairs in the Abbasi cabinet from December 2017 to May 2018. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from June 2013 to May 2018, where he was the Parliamentary Secretary for Finance, Revenue and Privatisation. Previously, he was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from 1997 to 1999 and again from 2008 to 2013.

Khan was born on 22 February 1949 in Faisalabad to Major Fazal Muhammad Khan.