Safdar Ali Abbasi ( ur, born 26 December 1957) is a Pakistani politician and physician. He is a former

senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

and the leader of the

Pakistan Peoples Party Workers Pakistan Peoples Party Workers ( ur, پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی ورکرز; abbreviated PPP-W) is a breakaway faction Faction or factionalism may refer to: Politics * Political faction, a group of people with a common political purpo ...

(PPP-W).

Early life

Abbasi was born in Larkana, Pakistan, on 26 December 1957. His family had long been involved in politics.Safdar Abbasi's Profile
Abbasi's mother, Ashraf Abbasi, was at one time the Deputy Speaker of the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...

. Abbasi attended

Aitchison College Aitchison College ( ur, ایچیسن کالج) is an independent, semi-private boys school for boarding and day students from grade 1–13 in Lahore, Pakistan. It has a tradition of providing an education that uses academics, sports, and co-curri ...

, Lahore, completing Cambridge and Intermediate studies before pursuing a medical degree at Dow Medical College, Karachi. He was interested and involved in local politics during his youth.

Political career

In 2018, Abbasi along with some other PPP leaders announced his own faction named as

and later became its president.