Javaid Ali Manwa is a Pakistani politician from Gilgit Baltistan, who has been a member of the

Gilgit Baltistan Assembly The Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly (GBA), formerly known as Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA), is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of Autonomous territory (de-facto Pakistani province) of Gilgit-Baltistan, which is locat ...

since November 2020. He has been the Minister for Finance during first part of tenure in the Assembly, till the Cabinet dissolved owing to disqualification of the Chief Minister GB by the court. Mr.Manwa went for the opposition benches, after the PTI forward block led coalition government field in on July 13, 2023. Mr.Manwa holds the portfolio of Chairman Standing Committtee on Home and Prisions department along with additional portfolios of Services and GAD along with Law reforms and Parliamentary Affairs.

Political career

Manwa contested the

2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election The 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly elections were held on 15 November 2020. Elections will be held in 24 constituencies, each electing one member to the 3rd Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly. 330 candidates will contest these elections, eithe ...

on 15 November 2020 from GBA-5 (Nagar-I) as an

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candidate. He won the election by the margin of 720 votes over the runner up Rizwan Ali of

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. He garnered 2,570 votes while Ali received 1,850 votes. After winning the election, Manwa joined

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. On 6 July 2023, he announced his resignation from the basic membership of the PTI, alluding to the

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as the reason.

References

Living people Gilgit-Baltistan MLAs 2020–2025 Politicians from Gilgit-Baltistan Year of birth missing (living people) {{Pakistan-politician-stub