Makhdoom Shahabuddin (
Urdu
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,
Saraiki: ; born 7 April 1947) is a Pakistani politician and was a member of the
National Assembly of Pakistan
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(February 2008 to May 2013) who has held federal ministerial portfolios for finance, health and textiles. He has been elected as
MNA from constituency NA-194 three times in the
1990
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,
1993
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and
2008 Pakistani general election
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s.
He is from
Mian Wali Qureshian
Mian Wali Qureshian (میاوالی قریشیاں) is a town in Rahim Yar Khan District, Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded more than 450 years ago by Makhdoom Rohullah Shah I. The Saraiki language is spoken.
Location
Mian W ...
,
Rahim Yar Khan
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, a town in the
Saraiki belt of southern
Punjab
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and his political affiliation is with the
Pakistan Peoples Party
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(PPP).
Political career
Makhdoom Shahabudin has been involved with the
Pakistan Peoples Party
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(PPP) since the
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979) was a Pakistani barrister and politician who served as the fourth president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and later as the ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan from 19 ...
regime in the 1970s, when his father Makhdoom Hameed-ud-Din was amongst the party's founding members and later served as federal minister under Bhutto. Shahabuddin has been one of the senior-most members in People's Party, having served in its central executive committee and as regional president for the party in South Punjab. He was considered especially close to the party's former leader,
Benazir Bhutto
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. And after her assassination in 2008, he was recommended as the candidate for Prime Minister of Pakistan in the
2008 Pakistan elections. But
Yousaf Raza Gillani
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was preferred by Mrs Bhutto's widower and eventual President
Asif Ali Zardari
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.
On 19 June 2012, in the aftermath of
Yousaf Raza Gilani's conviction and disqualification by the
Pakistan Supreme Court on
contempt of court
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charges, Shahabuddin was appointed by the PPP as its candidate for the office of
Prime Minister of Pakistan
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but the nomination was cancelled after a warrant for his arrest was issued by the ANF under suspicious circumstances upon the very day he was nominated.
He served as
Federal Minister of Pakistan of
Textiles
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under the Gilani government.
He is the descendant and successor (
sajjada-nasheen) of a famous
Sufi
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Practitioners of Sufism are r ...
saint
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, Sheikh Makhdoom Hameed-ud-Din Shah Hakim Al-Qureshi Al-Hashmi
Suhrawardi and his mausoloem in Mao Mubarak, Rahimyar Khan. He is also closely related to
Federal Minister Khusro Bakhtiar with whom he has contested elections with, for the
National Assembly seat of NA-177 (RahimYarKhan-III).
Sexual harassment allegations
On 5 June 2020, American journalist
Cynthia Ritchie accused former federal minister Shahabuddin along with former prime minister
Yousuf Raza Gillani of having sexually harassed her at President House Islamabad in 2011.
Legal trouble
On the day of his nomination as PM the Anti-Narcotics Force issued a non-bailable warrant for his arrest.
Latest news, Breaking News , Daily Jang
. Jang.com.pk (21 June 2012). Retrieved 21 June 2012. The Supreme Court of Pakistan in its decision to grant him bail observed that it was not merely a coincidence that the warrants for his arrest were issued upon the very day that he was nominated by the PPP.
References
External links
Profile at National Assembly
Profile: Shahabuddin's journey
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1947 births
Living people
Forman Christian College alumni
Pakistan People's Party MNAs
People from Rahim Yar Khan District
Pakistani MNAs 1990–1993
Pakistani MNAs 1993–1996
Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013
Defence production ministers of Pakistan