[1][2] Khan himself stated that he was raised in the way that a handshake was too intimate, but didn't mean to disrespect women, and also noted that politics was not the right field for him.
[3] Khan was invited to participate in the United States' International Visitor Leadership Program in 2011.
[4][5] This experience[6] is run by the U.S. Department of State "through public-private partnerships and tax payer funding.
[7] Khan was chairman of company Johai which ran the Gryningeskolan charter school with a Swedish-Muslim profile in Botkyrka between 2015 and 2017 for academic years 1–6.
On 25 June 2018, the inspectorate revoked Johai's permission to continue running the school due to a number of deficiencies:[10]