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Nasar Khan
Early morning on a quiet street in Sigtuna municipality

Sigtuna municipality

Nasar Khan

نصر خان

Born in Sweden. Shaped by two cultures. Now I want to open more doors than I was given.

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  1. Media — Göteborgs-Posten

    Självklart ska även Bolts och Ubers taxichaufförer få rimliga arbetsvillkor

    Debattartikel om varför även förare i plattformsekonomin behöver rimliga arbetsvillkor — texten sammanfattar de erfarenheter som ligger bakom Nasar Khans offentliga engagemang.

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  2. Thoughts — Justice

    What justice means to me

    Justice isn't about everyone getting the same thing — it's about everyone being given a real opportunity.

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  3. Thoughts — Society

    What unites us

    On shared values, good character, and why what unites us will always matter more than what separates us.

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Currently

Four engagements, one starting point: reasonable working conditions, shared responsibility and a voice for people who are rarely heard. Updated August 2026.

What I am working on now

Role
Chairman, Taxiunionen SwedenThe platform where I represent drivers: fair competition, better working conditions and a taxi industry that lasts. The association speaks for drivers who often stand outside the ordinary structures of the labour market.
Politics
Board member, Vänsterpartiet SigtunaThis engagement grew out of the years in the taxi industry — one of the clearest examples of a part of the labour market where many fall outside the Swedish model. The purpose is to give labour rights, platform work, fair competition and the taxi industry greater political attention, and to contribute to local issues in Sigtuna municipality.
Community
Board member, AyshamoskénAssociation work and organisation: equal rights and equal responsibilities, homework support and meeting places across generations.
Public debate
Writing, interviews and conversationsAn extension of the work in Taxiunionen and civil society — the same questions, carried on to readers, listeners and decision-makers.

Background

Who is Nasar Khan?

I was born and raised in Sweden, to parents from Pakistan. Living between two cultures taught me to listen, to build bridges, and to see how the same event can look entirely different depending on where you stand. That is also why I got involved.

At our kitchen table two languages met inside the same sentence. You cannot grow up like that without learning to translate — not only words, but the distance between people.

The rest came later. I became a father, and have measured every decision in decades since. I studied economics at Stockholm University. I became chairman of Taxiunionen Sweden, where I meet people who keep this country moving through nights and weekends. I sit on the board of Ayshamoskén.

Politics came last of all. It is a tool, not an identity.

Quiet daylight across a warm plastered wall
EducationEconomist, Stockholm University
Positions of trustChairman, Taxiunionen Sweden · Board member, Vänsterpartiet Sigtuna · Board member, Ayshamoskén
Candidate#6, Vänsterpartiet Sigtuna

The road here

A few markers

No straight line. A sequence of work, study and commitment that hangs together more in hindsight than it did at the time.

  1. Childhood

    Two languages at one kitchen table

    Born and raised in Sweden to parents from Pakistan. Early practice in translating between people.

  2. Studies

    Economics, Stockholm University

    The tools to read budgets, procurements and agreements — what decides whether decisions ever become real.

  3. Working life

    Behind the wheel

    Nights and weekends in the taxi trade. That is where I learned how working conditions feel in the body, not only on paper.

  4. Organising

    Chairman of Taxiunionen Sweden

    Experience in the industry led me to get involved in Taxiunionen, and I was later elected chairman of the association that represents drivers in negotiations and before public authorities.

  5. Community

    Board member, Ayshamoskén

    Association work, homework support and meeting places across generations.

  6. Today

    Candidate in Sigtuna municipality

    The same questions, a different seat: from the public bench to the table where decisions are made.

In brief

Quick facts

Lives in
Sigtuna municipality
Education
Economist, Stockholm University
Languages
Swedish, English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi
Positions of trust
Chairman, Taxiunionen Sweden · Board member, Vänsterpartiet Sigtuna · Board member, Ayshamoskén
Family
Father to children growing up here

Work

What I do with my days

I want my children and your children to grow up in a Sweden where they are judged by their character rather than their name.
Nasar Khan

Media

Media & Press

Over the past few years I have taken part in interviews, debates and reports on working life, integration, transport policy and the future of the taxi industry.

Featured publications

Archive

12 publications

2025

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One of my engagements

Candidate for Vänsterpartiet in Sigtuna, 2026 municipal election

Nasar Khan is a candidate for Vänsterpartiet in the 2026 municipal election in Sigtuna. The political starting point is work: that more people can support themselves through work on decent terms and fair wages, that the municipality invests in welfare, directs efforts towards those furthest from the labour market, works with the social partners, and requires collective agreements in public procurement. This website exists to present his background, experience, values and public engagements.

Election information
Early morning on a quiet street in Sigtuna municipality
Position
#6
Party
Vänsterpartiet
Municipality
Sigtuna

My Priorities

Three promises I intend to be held to

No twenty-point lists. Three areas where I know what needs doing and where I can make a difference.

  • A stack of worn documents and a pen on a wooden table

    Justice

    No one should be judged by their name or their background.

    The same rules, the same scrutiny, the same respect — whoever is standing in the room.

  • Rows of empty wooden chairs in a bright community hall

    Representation

    More people need to feel that their voice counts.

    Sigtuna speaks many languages. It should be heard where decisions are actually made, not only in the statistics.

  • A schoolyard in evening light with a football on the asphalt

    Future

    We are not only building today's society – we shape the next generation's chances.

    School, the evenings after it and the way in between decide more about a child's life than we like to admit.