Chaudhry Saeed Iqbal (30 October 1966 – 12 December 2022) was 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 2008 to 2013.

Political career

Iqbal was elected to the

from Constituency NA-81 (Faisalabad-VII) as a candidate of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in

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. He received 65,322 votes and defeated

Nisar Ahmad Jutt Nisar Ahmad Jutt (; born 9 March 1965) is a Pakistani politician who had 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 March 1965. He is an agriculturalis ...

. Iqbal ran for the seat of the National Assembly from Constituency NA-81 (Faisalabad-VII) as a candidate of PPP 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 ...

, but was unsuccessful. He received 40,199 votes and lost the seat to Nisar Ahmad Jutt.

Personal life and death

Iqbal died from cardiac arrest in Faisalabad on 12 December 2022, at the age of 56.

References

2022 deaths Pakistan People's Party politicians Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013 Politicians from Faisalabad {{Pakistan-MNA-stub