Last Updated: January 19, 2026

Anwar Ahmed Khan

Aliases

Rao Khan

Position

Former Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in Malir District, Karachi

Nationality

Pakistan

DoB

1959-01-01

Address

Punjab, Pakistan

Official reason

Anwar Ahmed Khan (a.k.a. Rao Anwar Khan) is the former Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in Malir District, Pakistan. In his role as SSP Malir, Khan was responsible for numerous staged police encounters in which hundreds of individuals were extra-judicially killed by police, including the murder of Naqeebullah Mehsud in 2018. Khan is therefore ...

Other Information

The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

Date of listing

2020-12-10

Program information

Authority

UK

Program

The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020

Regime

UK horizontal

Target State

Human Rights

Measures

Asset freeze and making available provisions, Travel bans

Sanctions Portfolio

• The Regulations impose financial sanctions through a targeted asset freeze on designated persons and prohibitions on making funds or economic resources available. This involves the freezing of funds and economic resources (non-monetary assets, such as property or vehicles) of designated persons and ensuring that funds and economic resources are n...

Official Information

The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 put in place sanctions measures to deter, and provide accountability for, activities which, if carried out by or on behalf of a State within the territory of that State, would amount to a serious violation by that State of an individual’s: • right to life • right not to be subjected to torture or ...

Additional Details

Licensing and exception provisions are contained in Part 5 of the Regulations.

Program URL

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/680