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Malik Mazhar Abbas Raan (1 February 1953 – 16 January 2019) was a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the

Provincial Assembly of the Punjab The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani provinces, Pakistani province of Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, which is located in Lahore, the provincial capital. It was established under ...

from 1997 to 1999, from May 2013 to May 2018 and again from July 2018 to January 2019.

Early life and education

He was born on 1 February 1953 in

Multan Multan (; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the bank of the Chenab River. Multan is Pakistan's seventh largest city as per the 2017 census, and the major cultural, religious and economic centre of southern Punjab. Multan is one of the List ...

. He graduated from

Government Emerson College Emerson University, Multan, formerly known as the Government Emerson College Multan is located in the city of Multan in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is also called Govt. College Multan, GC Multan, or Govt. Bosan Road College Multan. It is ...

in 1978 and has the degree of

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

Political career

He ran for the seat of the

as a candidate of

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 ...

(PPP) from Constituency PP-166 (Multan-VII) in

1988 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 16 November 1988 to elect the members of the National Assembly and Senate. The elections saw the resurgence of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) under the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's daughter, B ...

, but was unsuccessful. He received 21,059 votes and lost the seat to Shah Mehmood Qureshi. He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Democratic Alliance (PDA) from Constituency PP-166 (Multan-VII) in

1990 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 24 October 1990 to elect the members of the National Assembly. The elections were primarily a contest between the People's Democratic Alliance (PDA, a four party alliance led by the ruling Pakistan Pe ...

, but was unsuccessful. He received 22,719 votes and lost the seat to Shah Mehmood Qureshi. He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab 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 PP-166 (Multan-VII) in

1997 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 3 February 1997 to elect the members of National Assembly. The elections were a fierce contest between Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led by pre-election Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Mus ...

. He received 22,193 votes and defeated Sajjad Hussain Qureshi. He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-201 (Multan-VIII) in 2002 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful. He received 25,005 votes and lost the seat to Malik Muhammad Arshad Ran, a candidate of PPP. He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of

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 ...

(PML-Q) from Constituency PP-201 (Multan-VIII) in

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, but was unsuccessful. He received 25,412 votes and lost the seat to Malik Muhammad Abbas Raan, a candidate of PPP. He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-201 (Multan-VIII) 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 received 35,233 votes and defeated Makhdoom Mureed Hussain Qureshi, a candidate of PPP. He was re-elected to Provincial Assembly of the Punjab 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 PP-218 (Multan-VIII) in

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. He died on 16 January 2019 of cardiac arrest in Lahore.

References

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