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Deputy Speaker Of The National Assembly Of Pakistan
The deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan presides over the assembly whenever the speaker is absent or unable to perform his or her duties. The office has its roots in 1947 when the Deputy Speaker was addressed as the Deputy President of the legislative assembly. After the ratification of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan, the office was re-established. Currently, the position of Deputy Speaker is held by Ghulam Mustafa Shah who was elected by the National Assembly of Pakistan on 1 March 2024 along with the Speaker Ayaz Sadiq. Role and Responsibilities The office of the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly is created by Article 53 of the Chapter 2 in Part III of the Constitution of Pakistan. The Deputy Speaker acts as Speaker on occasions when the Speaker is unable to do so. If both the Speaker and Deputy Speaker are unable to fulfil the role, another person is appointed to temporarily act as Speaker. List See also * Speaker of National Assembly * Senate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah (Pakistani Politician)
Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah (; born 27 October 1959) is a Pakistani politician who is currently serving as the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since 29 February 2024 and previously served in this position from 2002 to May 2018 and then from August 2018 till August 2023. Early life He was born on 27 October 1959 in Khairpur District, Pakistan. Political career He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from Constituency NA-214, Constituency NA-214 (Nawabshah-II) in the 2002 Pakistani general election. He received 60,267 votes and defeated Multaz Ahmed Rahu, a candidate of National Alliance (Pakistan), National Alliance. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PPP from Constituency NA-214 (Nawabshah-II) in the 2008 Pakistani general election. He received 81,194 votes and defeated Khan Muha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Zafar Ali Shah
Syed Zafar Ali Shah () is a Pakistani politician who has served as member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1985 and 1998. A member of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf, Shah previously served as the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1996. Education He graduated with M.A and LL.B degrees. Political career Shah was elected to the Provincial Assembly of NWFP in the 1962 Pakistani general election and again in the 1970 Pakistani general election. He has held the position of Deputy Speaker of Provincial Assembly of Sindh from 1962 to 1965 and Provincial Minister for Food, Forests, Livestocks and Fisheries, Sindh, in 1984. Shah was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan for the first time in the 1985 Pakistani general election and appointed as Federal Minister for Industries, Food, Agriculture and Livestock in 1985. He was re-elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in the 1988 Pakistani general election, and appointed as Federal Minister of Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Pakistan
The Politics of Pakistan ( ; ISO: ''Siyāsiyāt-e-Pākistāna'') takes place within the framework established by the constitution. The country is a federal parliamentary republic in which provincial governments enjoy a high degree of autonomy and residuary powers. Executive power is vested with the national cabinet which is headed by Prime Minister of Pakistan ( Shehbaz Sharif since 3 March 2024), who works with the bicameral parliament and the judiciary. Stipulations set by the constitution provide a delicate check and balance of sharing powers between executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government. The head of state is the president who is elected by the electoral college for a five-year term. Asif Ali Zardari is currently the president of Pakistan (since 2024). The president was a significant authority until the 18th amendment, passed in 2010, stripped the presidency of most of its powers. Since then, Pakistan has shifted from a Semi-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senate Of Pakistan
The Senate of Pakistan, Constitution of Pakistan, constitutionally the House of the Federation, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Pakistan. As of 2023, It has a maximum membership of 96, of which 92 are elected by the Member of the Provincial Assembly#Provincial Assemblies in Pakistan, provincial legislatures using single transferable vote; four represent the Islamabad Capital Territory, federal capital. Members sit for terms lasting six years, with half of the house up for election every three years. Unlike the National Assembly of Pakistan, National Assembly, the Senate is a continuing chamber and hence not subject to dissolution. First convened in 1973, the Senate's composition and powers are established by thArticle 59of the Constitution of Pakistan. Each of the four Administrative units of Pakistan, provinces is represented by 23 senators regardless of population, while the Islamabad Capital Territory is represented by four senators, all of whom serve staggere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speaker Of The National Assembly Of Pakistan
The Speaker of the National Assembly (Urdu: اسپیکر قومی اسمبلی); informally as Speaker National Assembly, is the Speaker (politics), presiding official of the National Assembly of Pakistan, National Assembly of Pakistan, the lower house of the Parliament of Pakistan, Parliament of Pakistan. The office has its roots in 1947 and was reestablished in 1973 in accordance to the Constitution of Pakistan, Constitution; the speaker presides over the chamber composed of Elections in Pakistan, people's representatives elected on the basis of universal franchise. The Speaker is Line of succession to the President of Pakistan, Second in the Line of succession to the President of Pakistan, line of succession to the President of Pakistan, President of Pakistan and occupies fourth position in the Warrant of Precedence, after the President of Pakistan, President, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Prime Minister and the Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, Chairman of Senate. In add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah
Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah Sindhi: سيد غلام مصطفيٰ شاھ), 18 October 1918 – 9 October 1999was a scholar, educationist and academic leader from Sindh">Sindhi_language.html" ;"title="Sindhi language">Sindhi: سيد غلام مصطفيٰ شاھ), 18 October 1918 – 9 October 1999was a scholar, educationist and academic leader from Sindh, Pakistan. He served as Vice Chancellor of Sindh University Jamshoro and Federal Education Minister of Pakistan. He was founder of "Shah Abdul Latif Cultural Society" and launched the scholarly Journal "Sindh Quarterly". Biography Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah was born on 18 October 1918 at Village Qadir Dino Shah, near Bulri Shah Karim, District Sujawal, Sindh, Pakistan. He received primary education at Sujawal. He passed Matriculation examination from Sindh Madersatul Islam High School (now University) with first class first position. He passed Intermediate examination from D.J. Sindh College Karachi and graduated from Aligarh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F)
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan also known the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam or simply as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (; ; JUI (F)) is an Islamic fundamentalist political party in Pakistan. Established as the ''Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam'' in 1945, it is the result of a factional split in 1988, F standing for the name of its leader, Fazal-ur-Rehman. It has been called "the biggest religio-political party" in Pakistan, with the largest "proven street power." At the time of its inception it was based in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which are mostly inhabited by Pashtuns, but over the years it has cemented its electoral base into Balouchistan, and into Sindh. The JUI (F) is the largest splinter group of the original JUI, which split into two factions in 1980 over the policy of Pakistani president Zia-ul-Haq of supporting Mujahideen outfits in the Afghanistan war. The other faction, the much smaller JUI-S, led by Samiul Haq, is of regional significance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Two other small s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahid Akram Durrani
Zahid Akram Durrani (; ) is a Pakistani politician and a member of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal who is currently serving as 20th Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly since 21 April 2022 to 9 August 2023. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from October 2018 till August 2023, elected from NA-35 (Bannu). His father Akram Durrani has served as the Chief Minister of KPK, and federal minister for housing works. Political career Durrani was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal The Muttahida Majlis–e–Amal (MMA; Urdu: , ) is a political alliance consisting of conservative, Islamist, Religion in Pakistan, religious, and right-wing parties of Pakistan. Naeem Siddiqui (the founder of Tehreek e Islami) proposed such a ... (MMA) from Constituency NA-35 (Bannu) in the 2018 Pakistani by-elections held on 14 October 2018, getting 60,944 votes. References External links Living people Pashtun politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is a political party in Pakistan established in 1996 by cricketer and politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The party is led by Gohar Ali Khan since late 2023. The PTI ranks among the three major List of political parties in Pakistan, Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N), Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML–N) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). Despite Khan's popular persona in Pakistan, the PTI had limited initial success: it failed to win, as a collective, a single seat in the 1997 Pakistani general election, 1997 general election and the 2002 Pakistani general election, 2002 general election; only Khan himself was able to win a seat. From 1999 to 2007, the PTI supported the presidency of General Pervez Musharraf. It later rose in opposition to Musharraf in 2007 and also boycotted the 2008 Pakistani general election, 2008 general election, accusing it of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qasim Suri
Qasim Khan Suri (; born 16 January 1969) is a Pakistani politician. He served as the 19th Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 15 August 2018 to 16 April 2022. He had also been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till January 2023. Early life and education He was born in January 1969 in Quetta, Balochistan to a Pashtun family of the Sur tribe, a sub-clan of the Khiljis. The eldest among three brothers and three sisters, his father Rafique Ahmed Khan had a medicine business which Suri took over in 1997 after his death, becoming the managing director of Muhammadi Traders of Pharmaceutical Distributor Est, while his other source of income is agriculture. His mother is of Urdu-speaking background. Suri received his early education from the Quetta Islamia School and enrolled in Federal Government College in 1988. He received a bachelor's degree in political science in 1990 and a master's degree in international relations in 1992, both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murtaza Javed Abbasi
Murtaza Javed Abbasi (; born 15 March 1970) is a Pakistani politician. He is the son of Haji Javed Iqbal Abbasi who was the former MNA, Senator & District Nazim Abbottabad. Murtaza Javed Abbasi is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till August 2023. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 2008 to May 2018 and served as the 18th Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, from June 2013 to May 2018. He served as federal minister for parliamentary affairs since 19 April 2022. Early life He was born on 15 March 1970 to Javed Iqbal Abbasi in a Dhund Abbasi tribe. Political career Abbasi ran for the seat of the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) from Constituency NA-18 Abbottabad-II in the 2002 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful. He received 32,527 votes and lost the seat to a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q). Abassi was elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faisal Karim Kundi
Faisal Karim Kundi (; ) is a Pakistani politician who is currently serving as the 35th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in office since 4 May 2024. Previously, he held the position of Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division (Pakistan), Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety in First Shehbaz Sharif ministry, federal cabinet under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Additionally, he served as Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 19 March 2008 to 16 March 2013 and had been a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 17 March 2008 to 16 March 2013. Further, he contested for the seat of the National Assembly five times and the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa two times but remained unsuccessful. Early life and education Kundi was born on 24 May 1975 to Fazal Karim Kundi, who served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. He completed his early education at St. Peter's High School, Pak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
