Malik Jalil Awan is a

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politician who is a Member of the

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from 2013.

Early life and education

He was born on 1 February 1971 in

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. He has a degree of Bachelor of Laws which he obtained in 2000 from

Punjab Law College The University of Central Punjab (Urdu: ''یونیورسٹی آف سنٹرل پنجاب'') or UCP is a private university located on Khayaban-e-Jinnah Road, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. History On 15 August 1996, the Punjab Group of Colleges, a ...

Political career

He was elected to the

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as a candidate of

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(PML-N) from Constituency PP-14 (Rawalpindi-XIV) in the

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 received 26,489 votes and defeated Rashid Naseem Abbasi, a candidate of

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. He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-14 (Rawalpindi-XIV) 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 ...

References

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