Liaqat Baloch ( ur, ; born 9 December 1952) is a political leader in
Pakistan
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. He is originally from
Muzaffargarh
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, a remote area of southern
Punjab
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– although his family's origins are in the nearby province of Balochistan.
He played an active role in student politics in the late 1970s. And at the
University of the Punjab
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where he was elected president of the Students Union in 1976. He also elected all Pakistan president of
Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba
Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba ( ur, ) IJT is the largest student organisation in the world. It was founded by 25 students on 23 December 1947 at Lahore, Pakistan. Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba is working in Pakistan to eliminate the non-Islamic elements an ...
in 1977 and 1978. He holds an MA (Mass Communication) and
LLB
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degree from the
University of the Punjab
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. He was a member of the
Pakistani parliament
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in 1985, 1990 and 2002.
Today, Baloch lives in
Lahore
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and currently serving as the Naib Ameer (Deputy Chief) of
Jamaat-e-Islami
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,
Pakistan's
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Islamic
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religio-political party and also served as the
Secretary General
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of
Jamaat-e-Islami
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until 2019. He was also the secretary-general of the
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and the deputy leader of the opposition in the
National Assembly
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.
His sister-in-law is Dr Tahira Basharat, an important figure attached to the department of Islamic Studies at the University of the Punjab, where she served as Professor and Dean.
See also
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Naeem Siddiqui
Maulana Naeem Siddiqui (1916 – 25 September 2002) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and politician. He was among the founder-members of the Jamaat-e-Islami and a close associate of Abul A'la Maududi and Amin Ahsan Islahi.
Early life a ...
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Tehreek-e-Islami
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Abdul Ghafoor Ahmed
Abdul Ghafoor Ahmed (Urdu: عبدالغفور احمد ; 26 June 1927 – 26 December 2012) was a Pakistani politician who represented Jamaat-e-Islami in National Assembly and Senate of Pakistan in 1970 till 1977. He was a signatory and c ...
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Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba
Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba ( ur, ) IJT is the largest student organisation in the world. It was founded by 25 students on 23 December 1947 at Lahore, Pakistan. Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba is working in Pakistan to eliminate the non-Islamic elements an ...
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Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
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Khurshid Ahmad
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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 ...
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Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi
Abul A'la al-Maududi ( ur, , translit=Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī; – ) was an Islamic scholar, Islamist ideologue, Muslim philosopher, jurist, historian, journalist, activist and scholar active in British India and later, following the parti ...
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Politics of Pakistan
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Qazi Hussain Ahmad
Qazi Hussain Ahmad ( ur, قاضی حسین احمد ; born 12 January 1938 – 5 January 2013) was an Islamic scholar, democracy activist, and former Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami, the socially conservative Islamist political party in Pakistan.
He ...
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List of political parties in Pakistan
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The Parliament of Pakistan is bicameral, consisting of the National Assembly of Pakistan and the ...
References
External links
Liaqat Baloch Official WebsiteOfficial bio on Jamaat-e-Islami website (English)Jamaat-i-Islami Official site (English)
1952 births
Living people
Baloch politicians
People from Muzaffargarh District
People from Muzaffargarh
Pakistani Sunni Muslims
University of the Punjab alumni
Politicians from Lahore
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal politicians
Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan politicians
Politicians from Muzaffargarh
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