Chaudhry Ali Afzal Sahi (born on 26 June 1986) is a Pakistani politician and lawyer who is currently serving as 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 ...

since 29 February 2024. Previously, he served as the Provincial Minister of Punjab for Communication and Works from August 2022 till January 2023. He also served as a member of the

Provincial Assembly of the Punjab The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani provinces, Pakistani province of Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, which is located in Lahore, the provincial capital. It was established under ...

from July 2022 till January 2023.

Early life and education

Ali belongs to a politically active

Punjabi Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to: * Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan * Punjabi language * Punjabi people * Punjabi dialects and languages Punjabi may also refer to: * Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...

Jat The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subse ...

family of the Sahi clan from Faisalabad, as his father Muhammad Afzal Sahi, his uncle Lt. Col. (R)

Ghulam Rasool Sahi Ghulam Rasool Sahi (; born 9 July 1944) is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from 2002 to 2007 and again from June 2013 to May 2018. Early life He was born on 9 July 1944. in Faisalabad. He recei ...

and his cousin Zafar Zulqarnain Sahi have all been parliamentarians. He has memorized the Qur'an and earned his

Bachelor's A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ye ...

and later his

LLB Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the China, People's Republic ...

from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).

Political career

He contested the

2018 Punjab provincial election Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Punjab on to elect the members of the 17th Provincial Assembly of the Punjab on 25 July 2018, alongside nationwide general elections and three other provincial elections in Sindh, Baloch ...

from

PP-97 Faisalabad-I PP-97 Faisalabad-I () is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab. Election 2013, Azad Ali Tabassum of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) won the seat of MPA from PP – 51 FAISALABAD I by collecting 39, 676. Muhammad Ajmal Cheema of Pakistan ...

as a candidate of

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), but was unsuccessful. He received 37,973 votes and lost to Muhammad Ajmal Cheema, an independent candidate. He was elected to the

from PP-97 Faisalabad-I as a candidate of the PTI in the

July 2022 Punjab provincial by-election By-elections were held in Punjab, Pakistan on 17 July 2022 to elect 20 members of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won a landslide victory on 15 of those 20 seats, leading to the collapse of Chief Minister Ham ...

. He received 67,022 votes and defeated Muhammad Ajmal Cheema, a candidate of the

Pakistan Muslim League (N) The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ( ur, , translit=Pākistān Muslim Līg (Nūn) PML(N) or PML-N) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal conservative political party in Pakistan. Alongside the Pakistan Teh ...

(PML(N)). He was elected to

2024 Pakistani general election General elections are scheduled to be held in Pakistan on 8 February 2024 to elect the members of the 16th National Assembly. The detailed schedule was announced by Election Commission of Pakistan on 15 December 2023. The two major parties ar ...

, as a PTI-backed independent candidate from NA-95 Faisalabad-I. He received 144,229 votes and defeated

Azad Ali Tabassum Azad Ali Tabassum is a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, from August 2013 to May 2018. Early life He was born on 1 January 1968 in Faisalabad. In the village of 188R.B. Nalywala Tehsil Chak Jhumra ...

, a candidate of PML(N). He took the oath on 29th February 2024.

Writings

He has written articles and

op-eds An op-ed, short for "opposite the editorial page", is a written prose piece, typically published by a North-American newspaper or magazine, which expresses the opinion of an author usually not affiliated with the publication's editorial board. ...

for different publications, including for the English-language ''

Daily Times ''Daily Times'' may refer to the following national newspapers: * ''Daily Times'' (Nigeria), newspaper published in Nigeria * ''Daily Times'' (Pakistan), newspaper published in Pakistan ''The Daily Times'' may refer to the following newspapers: * ...

''.

References

Living people Pakistani lawyers Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MPAs (Punjab) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf politicians Politicians from Lahore Pakistani MNAs 2024–2029 1989 births {{PunjabPK-MPA-stub Lahore University of Management Sciences alumni