Beyond his political career, he has also been involved in the family business, has served as the Vice President of Punjab Squash Association for 1998–2002 and has managed District Red Crescent, Gujranwala Club and Jinnah Memorial Library.

[4] Khan attended the Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine from where he holds a degree in Economics and was trained as an electrical engineer at the California Institute of Technology.

[4] In 1999, he was serving as Special Assistant to then Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif[5] until his tenure was terminated during 1999 Pakistani coup d'état staged by Pervez Musharraf.

[6] Reportedly, he was booked for terrorist activities; for beating up two PPP activists at a polling station and for getting a provocative pamphlet published about a rival candidate in separate cases.

[17][12] He had ceased to hold ministerial office in July 2017 when the federal cabinet was disbanded following the disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after Panama Papers case decision.