Saera Khan

Saera Tithi Khan ( born April 23, 1979 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician and former Member of the Arbeiderpartiet ( Social Democratic Party of Norway ) in the Storting.

Khan, whose parents had immigrated from Bangladesh, grew up in Oslo. She attended the prestigious Katedralskole in the Norwegian capital, and then studied political science, economics, gender and European Affairs at the University of Oslo.

From 1999 to 2005 she represented her party in the city council of Oslo. Since 2002 she is member of the Imperial Board of Arbeiderpartiet. Between 2005 and 2009 it belonged to the Storting, the Norwegian National Parliament,.

After the Norwegian newspaper Verdens had gear in 2008 reported that Khan had done at the expense of taxpayers phone calls with fortune tellers for the equivalent of tens of thousands of euros (of which alone within three months for about 6,000 euros ), Khan denied the allegations at first, admitted it later, however, a. They subsequently announced that the parliamentary elections in September 2009, not - as originally planned - to compete.