Aamir Mehmood Kiani ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who served as Federal Minister for National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, from 20 August 2018 to 18 April 2019. He had been a member 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 ...

from August 2018 till January 2023.

Political career

He ran for a seat of the

as a candidate of the

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the thre ...

(PTI) from NA-56 Rawalpindi-VII in the 2002 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful. He received 3,182 votes and lost to

Sheikh 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 A ...

, an independent candidate. Ahmad vacated the seat in favour of NA-55 Rawalpindi-VI, another seat he won, and Kiani ran as an independent candidate for the subsequent by-election in NA-56 Rawalpindi-VII, but was again unsuccessful. He received 139 votes and was defeated by

Hanif Abbasi Muhammad Hanif Abbasi ( ur, ; born 4 January 1966) is a Pakistani businessman and politician of Pakistan Muslim League (N). He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan twice from 2002 to 2008 and again from 2008 to 2013. Early ...

, a candidate of the

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal The Muttahida Majlis–e–Amal (MMA; Urdu: , "United Council of Action") is a political alliance consisting of conservative, Islamist, religious, and far-right parties of Pakistan. Naeem Siddiqui (the founder of Tehreek e Islami) proposed suc ...

(MMA). He was elected to the

as a candidate of

(PTI) from Constituency NA-61 (Rawalpindi-V) in

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

. He received 105,000 votes and defeated

Malik Ibrar Ahmed Malik Ibrar Ahmed (; born 3 January 1970) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from 2008 to May 2018. Previously, he has been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 2002 to 2007 . ...

. On 18 August,

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidenc ...

formally announced his federal cabinet structure and Kiani was named as Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination. On 20 August 2018, he was sworn in as Federal Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination in the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Imran Khan. On 18 April 2019, in a mega reshuffle, Prime Minister

took his post down due to public pressure of medicine price increase. On 17 May 2023, Kiani announced that he had left the PTI and politics, as he belonged to a military family and couldn't stand Imran Khan's perceived anti-army stance. This came after days of violent crackdown on protesters supporting PTI. Many office-holders of PTI were arrested in violation of court orders. An estimated 50 people had been shot by police and paramilitary forces and thousands had been arrested and detained without charge, including women and children.

References

Living people Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Year of birth missing (living people) Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party politicians Politicians from Rawalpindi {{Pakistan-MNA-stub