ISLAMABAD: The mayor of London, whose Pakistani father once worked as a driver, has been made a knight in the New Year Honours List after securing a third term in office.
Sir Sadiq, the son of a bus driver in the capital, said he was “truly humbled” to receive the honour, The Independent reported.
He said: “I couldn’t have dreamed when growing up on a council estate in south London that I would one day be mayor of London.”
Sir Sadiq has worked on improving London’s transport as mayor, introducing names and colours for London Overground railway lines in November.
Spat over Muslim ban
A high-profile feud with Donald Trump, dating back to the US president-elect’s first term in the White House, boosted his global profile. The spat dates back to 2015 when Sir Sadiq condemned the then presidential hopeful’s suggestion that Muslims should be banned from travelling to the US.
In 2018, Sir Sadiq’s office gave permission for an inflatable depicting Mr Trump as a baby to fly in Parliament Square as the US president visited the UK.
Biography
According to Overseas Pakistanis Foundation, Sadiq Aman Khan (born 8 October 1970), a British politician was born in Tooting, South London, to a working-class British Pakistani Muslim family. Khan gained a law degree from the University of North London.
Khan’s grandparents migrated from Bombay Presidency, British India to Pakistan following the partition of India in 1947. His father Amanullah and mother Sehrun had arrived in London from Pakistan in the second half of the 1960s. Khan was the fifth of eight children, all but one of whom was a boy. In the city, Amanullah worked as a bus driver and Sehrun as a seamstress.
