Background
Khan was born in Norway in 1973 to parents who had emigrated to Oslo at the beginning of the 1970s. She grew up in the Oslo neighborhood Romsås, but lived in Pakistan from when she was eight to eleven years of age.
Khan was born in Norway in 1973 to parents who had emigrated to Oslo at the beginning of the 1970s. She grew up in the Oslo neighborhood Romsås, but lived in Pakistan from when she was eight to eleven years of age.
She started X-plosiv, a magazine for youth from minority backgrounds in 1995. The magazine later became an online site which Khan edited from 2007 to 2010. She worked as a political journalist in Dagbladet in 1998 and then in Liaison Office-aktuelt, a magazine for the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, from 2000 to 2009.