[1] He is the leader of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Party, and has been elected 4 times as the MLA from Gurez Assembly constituency between 2002 and 2024.
Nazir Gurezi, who left the post of Secretary General in Janata Dal, joined NC.
[6] On the intervening night of 4 and 5 August 2019, Nazir Ahmad Khan was placed under preventive detention by the Indian Government under Section 107 of the CRPC.
This came as a backdrop to the government's decision of scrapping Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which gave the state of Jammu & Kashmir semi-autonomous powers.
[clarification needed] After the 104 days of detention, Gurezi was released by Govt of India.