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Rizwan Khan
Broadcast journalist and author of South Asian origin
Riz Khan (Punjabi: رضوان احمد خان; born April 1962) is a British broadcaster Currently working as a presenter for Al Arabiya English.[1]
From 2006 until April 2011 he hosted his own eponymous television show on Al Jazeera English.
He first rose to prominence while working for the BBC and CNN.
Early life
Riz Khan was born in April 1962 in the British colony of Aden (now part of the Republic of Yemen). His father was a Pakistani-Punjabi born in Amritsar, India, under British rule, whose family moved to Lahore during the Partition.[2][3][4] Khan's mother was born in Mukalla, in British-controlled Yemen, but her family roots go back to Kathiawar, Gujarat, in India.[5][6] Both his parents were Muslim.
At the age of four, Khan moved with his family to London, during the Aden Emergency, an armed civil conflict that saw the end of British rule in Aden.