Maulana Abdul Wasey () is a Pakistani politician who served as the member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2018 to 2023. He has also remained member of the

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from 1993 to 1996 and 1997 to 1999 and then consecutively for three terms, from 2002 to

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. He is currently serving as the president of JUI-F in

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province.

Political career

He was elected to the

as a candidate of Islamic Jamhoori Mahaz from Constituency PB-15 Killa Saifullah in the

1993 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 6 October 1993 to elect the members of National Assembly. The elections took place after both the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan resigned to resolve a power struggle. Prio ...

.Detailed Results of Elections to the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan (1988-1997) - Archived
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'' He was re-elected to the

as a candidate of

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 th ...

from Constituency PB-15 Killa Saifullah in the

1997 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 3 February 1997 to elect the members of National Assembly. The elections were a fierce contest between Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led by pre-election Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Mus ...

. He was twice re-elected to the

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 ...

from Constituency PB-20 Killa Saifullah in the

2002 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 10 October 2002 to elect the 12th National Assembly and four Provincial Assemblies. The elections were held under the military government of Pervez Musharraf. The two mainstream parties, Pakistan ...

and

2008 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 18 February 2008 to elect members of the 13th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. On 3 November 2007 President Pervez Musharraf enacted a state of emergency; elections were initia ...

. He was re-elected to the

as a candidate of

from Constituency PB-20 Killa Saifullah in the

2013 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on Saturday 11 May 2013 to elect the members of the List of members of the 14th National Assembly of Pakistan, 14th National Assembly of Pakistan, National Assembly and the four Subdivisions of Pakistan, Pr ...

respectively. He then briefly served as the ''Leader of Opposition'' in Balochistan Assembly from 2013 to 2018. He also served as ٓ'' Senior Minister of Planning and Development'' in Balochistan twicely from 2002 to 2007 and 2008–2013. He was elected to the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly of Pakistan, also referred to as ''Aiwān-ē-Zairīñ'', is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, with the upper house being the Senate of Pakistan, Senate. As of 2023, the National Assem ...

from Constituency NA-257 (Killa Saifullah-cum-Zhob-cum-Sherani) as a candidate of

in the

2018 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 25 July 2018 to elect the members of the 15th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. The three major parties were Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), led by Imran Khan, the Pakistan Muslim ...

. On 19 April 2022, he was appointed as Minister of Housing and Works in Shehbaz Sharif ministry which he served till 9 August 2023.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wasey, Abdul Living people Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Leaders of the opposition in the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal MNAs Year of birth missing (living people) Deobandis People from Zhob District Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) politicians Balochistan MPAs 1993–1996 Balochistan MPAs 1997–1999 Balochistan MPAs 2002–2007 Balochistan MPAs 2008–2013 Balochistan MPAs 2013–2018 Balochistan MPAs 2024–2029

Political career

See also

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