Abdul Wahid Soomro is a Pakistani politician who was 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 2008 to 2013.

Political career

He ran for the seat of the

from Constituency NA-237 (Thatta-I) as a candidate of

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded ...

(PPP) in 2002 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 53,616 votes and lost the seat to

Syed Ayaz Ali Shah Sheerazi Syed Ayaz Ali Shah Sheerazi (; born 20 August 1976) is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. Previously he was a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to May 2018. He served as M ...

. He was elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-237 (Thatta-I) as a candidate of PPP in

2008 Pakistani general election 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

. He received 85,138 votes and defeated Syed Riaz Hussain Shah Sheerazi, a candidate of

Pakistan Muslim League (Q) The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid e Azam Group) ur, ; ''Pākistān Muslim Līg (Qāf)'', Acronyms: PML(Q), PML-Q, PMLQ, "Q League") is a Conservative nationalist political party in Pakistan. As of the 2018 parliamentary election, it has a re ...

(PML-Q). He ran for the seat of the National Assembly from Constituency NA-237 (Thatta-I) as a candidate of PPP in

2013 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on Saturday 11 May 2013 to elect the members of the 14th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. The three major parties were the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) led by Nawaz Sharif, t ...

but was unsuccessful. He received 78 votes and lost the seat to

Shamasunnisa Shamas-un-Nisa Memon () is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from August 2018 till August 2023. Previously she was a member of the National Assembly from August 2013 to May 2018. Political career ...

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013 {{Pakistan-MNA-stub