Khan has produced, reported, and anchored for Pakistan's major cable networks, as well as leading U.S., U.K., and Indian publications. Khan was a producer and correspondent for NBC News in Islamabad and Kabul, and the National Security Correspondent for Lahore-based Dunya News. He has also contributed to CNN, The Times and India Today, but is best known as the anchor and editor of the hit primetime show, Mahaaz (The Front), which he produced from 2015 till 2018.
Khan was born in Quetta, Balochistan to a family of civil servants. He attended Karachi Grammar School, where he was selected as the editor of the school magazine, The Grammarian, considered Pakistan's oldest print publication. He went on to the University of Michigan, majoring in Political Science and History, reporting and editing for The Michigan Daily on campus issues, as well as the events of 9/11. At Michigan, Khan became the only collegiate journalist to cover the US invasion of Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks. In 2011, the Harvard Kennedy School honored Khan as the first Pakistani fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University. At Harvard, Khan authored one of the first studies tracking hate content on Pakistani social media.
Khan's broadcast career started after his return from Michigan, when electronic media was deregulated in Pakistan in the early 2000s by the regime of General (retired) Pervez Musharraf. He joined the country's largest media house, the Jang Group of Newspapers/Geo News, as Manager of News Product Development and Strategy before switching to news production. Khan was at Geo News, the country's primary cable news network, from 2003 to 2007.[citation needed] He then helped launch Dawn News, Pakistan's first English-based news network, in 2007. At Dawn, his broadcast career effectively took off with the hit interview series Talk Back; he also became the first Pakistani to produce an investigative interview series from India for Talk Back: Eye on India. Pivoting to documentaries, Khan produced the first independent documentary series on the Pakistani military, "We Are Soldiers", which was eventually banned by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority. He remained at Dawn until 2010.

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