Ammar Ali Jan

Ammar Ali Jan (Urdu: عمار علی جان, born December 15, 1986) is a Pakistani historian, academic and political organizer. He is founder and general secretary of Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, also a member of Progressive International.

Early life and education
Jan completed his education at the Salamat International Campus for Advanced Studies in 2005, received his Masters in social sciences from the University of Chicago in 2011, and got his doctorate ("A study of Communist Thought in Colonial India, 1919-1951") in history from the University of Cambridge in 2018.

Career
Jan has taught as assistant professor of history in University of the Punjab, Government College University and Forman Christian College, Lahore.

Political career
Jan was member of Labour Party Pakistan. and Progressive Youth Front (PYF).

He was fired from the University of the Punjab in April 2018 for his political views and actions on campus. In 2018, Jan was barred from speaking at the 4th Faiz International Festival along with three other speakers including Taimur Rahman, Ali Wazir, and Rashed Rahman. In Feb, 2019 an FIR against Jan was registered for his participation in a protest against the killing of teacher and poet Arman Loni. In March, 2018 he helped in formation of Lahore Left Front (LLF) with alliance of seventeen like-minded left-wing parties.

As member of the People’s Solidarity Forum, Jan launched Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement (HKM) on May 19, 2018 in Lahore. Jan organized Students Solidarity March while working in HKM. In March 2022, HKM announced that it would register as a political party and contest the local and national elections. HKM was later converted to Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (HKP).

Articles
Jan has published articles in newspapers like The News International, Al Jazeera, The Friday Times, Herald (Pakistan) and few others. He is author of the book ‘Rule by Fear: Eight Theses on Authoritarianism in Pakistan’, Folio Books (November 2021).