Faisal Vawda is a

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politician and businessman who was the Federal Minister for Water Resources from 5 October 2018 to 3 March 2021. He has previously been a member of the

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from August 2018 till March 2021. He was elected as a senator after winning in the 2021 Senate Elections on a seat from

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and held the seat until he was disqualified for being a dual national on 9 February 2022. He was a member of

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(PTI) from 2010 to 2022, when his membership was terminated by the party.

Business career

Faisal Vawda hails from the Farid Ahmed Vawda business family and, prior to his political career, was involved in the family-owned FAV Group of Companies, established in 1984, specializing in textile dyes, chemicals, masterbatches, plastic manufacturing, air compressors, industrial inverters, security equipment, and toner distribution, with operations in

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, and

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Political career

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (2010-2022)

Faisal Vawda was elected to the

from the Constituency NA-249 (Karachi West-II) as a candidate of Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf in the 2018 General Elections. He received 35,344 votes and defeated

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. Following his successful election, a petition was submitted in the Sindh High Court seeking the disqualification of Faisal Vawda for not disclosing the details of his foreign bank accounts and properties in the affidavit submitted to the

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. On 5 October 2018, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister

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and was appointed as Federal Minister for Water Resources. On 3 March 2021, the day of the 2021 Senate Elections, he resigned from his seat as a member of the

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. He became a Senator after winning in the 2021 Senate Elections and held the seat till 9 February 2022 when he was disqualified by the ECP for being a dual national.

Termination

As a senior member of PTI, Faisal Vawda held a press conference on 26 October 2022, where he talked about

's Azadi long march and disclosed the party's policy about the march. According to the PTI, Faisal Vawda's press conference was against the party policy as he talked to media without notifying the party. As a result, Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf issued him a

show cause An order to show cause is a court order that requires one or more of the parties to a case to justify, explain, or prove something to the court. Courts commonly use orders to show cause when the judge needs more information before deciding whether ...

notice and need answer for his press talk. On 29 October 2022 the PTI issued a termination letter to Faisal Vawda undersigned by Chairman of Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan as he failed to respond to the party's show cause notice.

Assets

As of 2010, Faisal Vawda is owner of Faisal Vawda Group. In 2016, NAB summoned Faisal Vawda for an inquiry pertaining to fraudulent allotment of amenity plots. A notice issued by NAB said that hundreds of amenity plots have been allotted to Faisal Vawda Group, a company owned by Vawda himself. In 2019, Saudi Pak Leasing Company Limited filed a plea against Vawda and his father for not returning the loan taken for business purposes. In 2020, the

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released its 2018 tax directory for parliamentarians which noted that Vawda did not pay any taxes. He later denied the allegations by posting his tax returns on his Twitter feed. In early October 2021, Faisal Vawda was named in the

Pandora Papers The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 35 ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vawda, Faisal 1973 births Living people Muhajir people Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNAs American people of Pakistani descent Pakistani businesspeople Pakistani people of Gujarati descent Pakistanis named in the Pandora Papers Politicians from Karachi