Lieutenant General Hamid Nawaz Khan, HI(M), was a career Pakistan Army general who served as Federal Interior Minister from November 2007 to April 2008 and Defence Secretary of Pakistan from 2001 to 2005. He also held Chair positions at Pakistan International Airlines, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Fauji Foundation. He was the nephew of Chaudhry Naseer Ahmad Malhi from his father's side, one of the founders of Pakistan and the first education minister of Pakistan belongs to the Sivia Jatt community.