Asad Mehmood ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who has 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 ...

since August 2018. He is serving as the chairman of the standing committee of the National Assembly of Pakistan on Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony. He is an alumnus of Khair al-Madaris and the current Chancellor of

Jamia Qasim Ul Uloom Jamia Qasim Ul Uloom Multan ( ur, , Jamiyah Qasim Uloom) is an Deobandi religious educational centre in Multan, Pakistan. The seminary was established in 1946 by Mufti Mahmood. In October 1946, Hussain Ahmad Madani visited Multan for formal ...

Personal life

Asad is the son of Fazal-ur-Rehman and grandson of Mufti Mahmood, who was against the creation of Pakistan and was one of many who called the founder of Pakistan "

Kafir Kafir ( ar, كافر '; plural ', ' or '; feminine '; feminine plural ' or ') is an Arabic and Islamic term which, in the Islamic tradition, refers to a person who disbelieves in God as per Islam, or denies his authority, or rejects ...

-e-Azam" which literally translates to "Kafir of the nation" He graduated from Khair al-Madaris. He is the Chancellor of

Multan Multan (; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the bank of the Chenab River. Multan is Pakistan's seventh largest city as per the 2017 census, and the major cultural, religious and economic centre of southern Punjab. Multan is one of the List ...

Political career

He was elected to the

as a candidate of

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) from Constituency

NA-37 (Tank) NA-42 Tank () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. In 2022 after the official publication of the results of 6th Population and Housing Census 2017. The ECP initiated the processes for fresh delimitation in April 2022 and publi ...

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 28,504 votes and defeated Habib Ullah Khan Kundi, 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 ...

. Following his successful election, MMA nominated him for the office of

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan The Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan presides over the assembly whenever the speaker is absent or unable to perform his or her duties. The office has its roots in 1947 when the Deputy Speaker was addressed as the Deputy Presid ...

. On 15 August 2018, he lost the office to

Qasim Suri Qasim Khan Suri ( ur, born 16 January 1969) is a Pakistani politician. He served as the 19th Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 15 August 2018 to 16 April 2022. Early life and education He was born in January 1969 in Qu ...

. He is Chairman of Standing Committee of National Assembly of Pakistan on Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony. He took oath as a federal minister for Communications and Postal Services in

Shahbaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi: , ; born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who is currently serving as the 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan, in office since 11 April 2022. He is the current president o ...

Cabinet

References

Living people Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal MNAs Year of birth missing (living people) Jamia Khairul Madaris alumni People from Lakki Marwat District Jamia Qasim Ul Uloom people {{Pakistan-MNA-stub