|
Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad
Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad ( ur, ; born 6 November 1950) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 38th Interior Minister of Pakistan from 2020 to 2022. He is famous because of his smoking cigars and Laal Haveli. He is the founder and leader of Awami Muslim League, additionally, Rasheed also maintains close relations with the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Early life and education Ahmad was born on November 6, 1950 in Babra Bazaar in Rawalpindi, Punjab. He received his early education from Polytechnic College and graduated from Government Gordon College. He completed his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Punjab. Ahmad was a leader of the student union at Gordon College. Political career Ahmad began his political career during his student years and was actively involved against the military regime of Ayub Khan. Rasheed was elected to the National Assembly six times. In the 1985 Pakistani general election, which was held on non-party basis, he was elected as the me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Interior (Pakistan)
The Ministry of Interior ( ur, , abbreviated as MoI) is a Cabinet of Pakistan, Cabinet-level ministry of the Pakistan Government, Government of Pakistan, tasked and primarily responsible for implementing the internal policies, state security, administration of internal affairs involving the state, and assisting the government on territorial affairs of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), and insular areas of Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA). The ministry is led by the Interior Minister of Pakistan, Interior Minister, the Interior Minister of Pakistan, Minister of State for Interior and the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, Interior Secretary. The Interior Secretary is a Grade 22, Grade 22 officer whereas the Interior Minister is a leading member of the Cabinet of Pakistan, federal cabinet. The ministry is located in Islamabad and is currently led by Rana Sanaullah Khan. The minister is required to be a member of Parliament of Pakistan, parliament. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farooq Leghari
Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari ( ur, ; 29 May 194020 October 2010), was a Pakistani politician who served as the eighth president of Pakistan from 14 November 1993 until resigning on 2 December 1997. He is the first Baloch to have been elected as president. Born into a Baloch tribal and influential feudal family, Leghari was educated at Aitchison College, the Forman Christian College in Pakistan, and St Catherine's College, Oxford in United Kingdom. Upon return from the UK, he sat for the Civil Services Exam in 1964 and started his career as a civil servant, remained commissioner sargodha division, prior to getting in to politics in 1973 and tenured as Senator representing the Punjab on the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) platform from 1975 to 1977. He contested the 1977 he won the National Assembly Elections on Pakistan People's Party ticket and was appointed Minister for Industries. In 1980s, he led demonstrations aimed against President Zia-ul-Haq's administration and successfu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominion Of Pakistan
Between 14 August 1947 and 23 March 1956, Pakistan was an independent federal dominion in the Commonwealth of Nations, created by the passing of the Indian Independence Act 1947 by the British parliament, which also created the Dominion of India. Prior to independence, Pakistan had been administered by the United Kingdom as a part of British India. Before its independence, Pakistan consisted of those Presidencies and provinces of British India which were allocated to it in the Partition of India. Until 1947, they had been ruled by the United Kingdom as a part of the British Empire. During the year that followed its independence, the new country was joined by the Princely states of Pakistan ruled by princes who had previously been in subsidiary alliances with the British, which acceded to Pakistan, one by one, with their rulers signing Instruments of Accession. For many years, these states enjoyed a special status within the dominion and later the republic, but they were sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Punjab
West Punjab ( pnb, ; ur, ) was a province in the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955. The province covered an area of 159,344 km2 (61523 sq mi), including much of the current Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab province and the Islamabad Capital Territory, but excluding the former State of Bahawalpur, Princely state of Bahawalpur. The capital was the city of Lahore and the province was composed of four divisions (Lahore Division, Lahore, Sargodha Division, Sargodha, Multan Division, Multan and Rawalpindi Division, Rawalpindi). The province was bordered by the Bahawalpur (princely state), princely state of Bahawalpur to the south, the province of Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province), Baluchistan to the south-west and Sind Province (1936–1955), Sind to the south, North-West Frontier Province to the northwest, and Azad Kashmir to the north. It shared International border with Indian state of East Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Indian-administered Jammu & Kashmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's capital Islamabad, and the two are jointly known as the "twin cities" because of the social and economic links between them. Rawalpindi is on the Pothohar Plateau, known for its ancient Hindu and Buddhist heritage, especially in the neighbouring town of Taxila, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 1765, the ruling Gakhars were defeated and the city came under Sikh rule, becoming an important city within the Sikh Empire based at Lahore. The city's ''Babu Mohallah'' neighbourhood was once home to a community of Jewish traders that had fled Mashhad, Persia, in the 1830s. The city was conquered by the British Raj in 1849, and in the late 19th century became the largest garrison town of the British Indian Army's Northern command as its climate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constituency NA-55
NA-56 Rawalpindi-V () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. Members of Parliament 1970–1977: NW-28 Rawalpindi-III 1977–2002: NA-38 Rawalpindi-III 2002–2018: NA-52 Rawalpindi-III 2018-2023: NA-62 Rawalpindi-VI Election 2002 General elections were held on 10 Oct 2002. Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad an Independent candidate won by 60,649 votes. Election 2008 The result of general election 2008 in this constituency is given below. Result Javed Hashmi succeeded in the election 2008 and became the member of National Assembly. By-election 2010 The by-polls were held in February 2010 and Malik Shakeel Awan was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from this constituency as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N). He received 63,888 votes and defeated Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad by a great margin. Election 2013 General elections were held on 11 May 2013. Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad of Awami Muslim League won by 95,643 votes and became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 also comprises the Senate of Pakistan (upper house). The National Assembly and the Senate both convene at Parliament House in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The National Assembly is a democratically elected body consisting of a total of 342 members who are referred to as Members of the National Assembly (MNAs), of which 272 are directly elected members and 70 reserved seats for women and religious minorities from all over the country. A political party or a coalition must secure 172 seats to obtain and preserve a majority. Members are elected through the first-past-the-post system under universal adult suffrage, representing electoral districts known as National Assembly constituencies. According to the Constitution of Pakistan, constit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Industries And Production (Pakistan)
The Ministry of Industries and Production ( ur, ) is headed by the Minister for Industries and Production and Pakistan Secretary of Industries and Production. Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) is a state corporation of Pakistan under Ministry of Industries and Production. It was created to set up industries in Pakistan in such fields where the private sector was shy and where large amount of capital outlay with long gestation period was required. Subsidiary Companies * National Industrial Parks Development and Management Company * Technology Up-Gradation and Skill Development Company * Karachi Tools, Dies And Moulds Centre * Pakistan Stone Development Company * Pakistan Gems & Jewellery Development Company * Pakistan Hunting & Sporting Arms Development Company * Furniture Pakistan Company * Southern Punjab Embroidery Industry * Aik Hunar Aik Nagar * Pakistan Chemical And Energy Sector Skills Development Small and Medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Ghulam Ishaq Khan ( ur, غلام اسحاق خان; 20 January 1915 – 27 October 2006), was a Pakistani bureaucrat who served as the seventh president of Pakistan, elected in 1988 following Zia's death until his resignation in 1993. He was the founder of his namesake Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute. Raised in Bannu, Ghulam Ishaq graduated from Peshawar University and entered the Indian Civil Service, opting for Pakistan after the independence in 1947. Appointed the first chairman of the Water and Power Development Authority by President Ayub Khan in 1961, Ghulam Ishaq also served as Finance Secretary from 1966 to 1970. A year later, he was appointed Governor of the State Bank by President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, before being made Defence Secretary in 1975, assisting with Pakistan's atomic bomb programme. He was retained by President Zia-ul-Haq as Finance Minister in 1977, overseeing the country's highest GDP growth average. Elected Chairman of the Senate in 1985, Ghulam Ishaq w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awami Muslim League (Pakistan)
Awami Muslim League Pakistan ( ur, ) is a Pakistani political party formed in June 2008 by Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad. The party tends to have close relations with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. Former party This was also the name of the political party founded by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and which later evolved into the Awami League, the party that, under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (himself a former aide to Suharwardy). The All Pakistan Awami Muslim League was formed as a breakaway faction of the " All Pakistan Muslim League" in 1949, within two years of the formation of Pakistan. Two parties of the same name were created in Pakistan. The East Pakistan Awami Muslim League formed by Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, which later became Awami League The word Muslim was dropped in 1953. Electoral history NA-62 (Rawalpindi-VI) This constituency of Rawalpindi tends to be the primary electoral seat for AML leader, Shaikh Rasheed Ahm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Tourism (Pakistan)
{{Pakistan-gov-stub ...
The Ministry of Tourism was a ministry of the Government of Pakistan. It was established to develop the tourism industry in Pakistan. It was abolished after the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan was passed. Its main objectives and functions were largely transferred to the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC). See also *Tourism in Pakistan External links Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) Tourism Tourism in Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
