Chaudhry Farrukh Altaf is a 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.

Political career

Chaudhry Farrukh Altaf contested on

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 ...

's ticket in 1997 from NA-45 Jhelum-I (which was renamed later to NA-66 (Jhelum-I)). He obtained 32097 votes and lost to

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 ...

's candidate Raja Muhammad Afzal Khan. During

Pervez Musharraf General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of the ...

era in 2001, Chaudhry Farrukh Altaf was elected unopposed as district Nazim from district Jhelum. In 2008 he joined

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 ...

, he supported

Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain is a Pakistani politician and former federal minister who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to 2007. He is a businessman and owns Spices village lasani restaurant (now sold) and Spinzer lasa ...

from NA-66 (Jhelum-I) 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 ...

. 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 contested from NA-66 (Jhelum-I) on

's ticket but lost the seat to

Chaudhry Khadim Hussain Chaudhry Khadim Hussain () is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from June 2013 to May 2018. Previously, he had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 2012 to 2013. Political c ...

who obtained 102022 votes. Farrukh obtained 36878 votes and stood third in the poll. In 2016,

Fawad Chaudhry Fawad Ahmed Hussain Chaudhry (born 7 April 1970) is a Pakistani politician and a senior member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, who was Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, in office since 14 April 2021 to 10 April 2022. Previously ...

cousin of Chaudhry Farrukh Altaf joined PTI, he pursued party leadership to give ticket of NA-66 (Jhelum-I) to his cousin Chaudhry Farrukh Altaf. He was elected to the

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) from Constituency NA-66 (Jhelum-I) 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 ...

. He received 112,356 votes and defeated Chaudhry Nadeem Khadim, a candidate of

. In April 2022, Farrukh Altaf crossed the floor and defected from

to join the opposition alliance

Pakistan Democratic Movement The Pakistan Democratic Movement ( ur, پاکستان ڈیموکریٹک موومنٹ), or PDM, is a coalition of political parties in Pakistan. It was founded in September 2020 as a movement against then prime minister Imran Khan, accusing his ...

ending in successful

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References

Living people Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Chaudhry family (Jhelum) People from Jhelum District Year of birth missing (living people) {{Pakistan-MNA-stub Politicians from Jhelum