Abid Sher Ali (born 21 November 1971) is a Pakistani

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

who served as Minister of State for Power, in the Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. Previously, he served as the Minister of State for Water and Power from 2013 to 2017. 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 2002 to May 2018.

Personal life

He was born on 21 November 1971. He is the son of former mayor of Faisalabad and senior PML-N leader Chaudhry Sher Ali who is a relative of

Kalsoom Nawaz Sharif Begum Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif ( Punjabi, ur, ; 29 March 1948– 11 September 2018) was a Pakistani politician who had been the first lady of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms; from 1990 to 1993, 1997 to 1999 and then from 2013 to 2017. S ...

. Ali is nephew of

Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi language, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime ...

. He went to

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for his early studies.

Political career

Ali was elected to 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-84 (Faisalabad-X) in 2002 Pakistani general election. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-84 (Faisalabad-X) in

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. Ali was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-84 (Faisalabad-X) 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 ...

. In July 2013, Ali was appointed as the Minister of State for Water and Power. He had ceased to hold ministerial office in July 2017 when the federal cabinet was disbanded following the resignation of Prime Minister

after Panama Papers case decision. Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2017, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Abbasi. He was appointed as the Minister of State for Power, a division under then-newly created Ministry of Energy. Upon the dissolution of the National Assembly on the expiration of its term on 31 May 2018, Ali ceased to hold the office as Minister of State for Power. He ran for the seat 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 Constituency

NA-108 (Faisalabad-VIII) NA-102 Faisalabad-VIII () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. Members of Parliament 2018-2022: NA-108 Faisalabad-VIII Election 2002 General elections were held on 10 Oct 2002. Haji Muhammad Fazal Karim of PML-N won by 3 ...

as a candidate of PML(N) in the

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 ...

but was unsuccessful. He received 111,529 votes and lost the seat to

Farrukh Habib Farrukh Habib (born 18 September 1987) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till July 2022 and former Minister of State from April 2021 till April 2022, born in Faisalabad. He star ...

, 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). He ran for the seat of the

from Constituency

as a candidate of PML(N) in the

2022 Pakistan by-elections By-elections were held on 8 National Assembly and 3 Punjab Assembly constituencies in Pakistan on 16 October 2022 and 1 National Assembly seat on 30 October 2022. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf got a landslide victory by winning 7 out of 9 National ...

but was unsuccessful. He received 75,421 votes and lost the seat to

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 ...

, the chairman of PTI.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ali, Abid Sher Living people Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 Pakistan Muslim League (N) politicians People from Faisalabad Politicians from Punjab, Pakistan Punjabi people 1971 births Pakistani MNAs 2002–2007 Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013