Chaudhry Azhar Qayyum Nahra (; born 1 January 1977) is a Pakistani politician who 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 August 2023. Previously, he was a member of the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

from June 2013 to May 2018.

Early life

He was born on 1 January 1977.

Political career

He ran for the seat of the

as a candidate of

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) from Constituency NA-100 (Gujranwala-VI) in by-elections held in 2010, but was unsuccessful. He received 61,818 votes and lost the seat to Chaudry Tussadiq Masud Khan. The seat was fallen vacant due to the resignation of Muddasir Qayyum Nahra. He was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-100 (Gujranwala-VI) 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 ...

. He received 89,826 votes and defeated an independent candidate, Chaudhry Bilal Ijaz. During his tenure as Member of the National Assembly, he served as the Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Water and Power. In October 2017, he was made Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Postal Services. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-84 (Gujranwala-VI) 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 ...

and degeated Chaudhry Bilal Ijaz for the third time consecutively.

References

Living people Pakistan Muslim League (N) politicians Punjabi people Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 1977 births Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 {{Pakistan-MNA-stub