Mian Muhammad Shafiq Arain () is a Pakistani 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.

Early life and education

He was born on 18 November 1956 in

Dunyapur Tehsil Dunyapur is a tehsil of the Lodhran District of Punjab, Pakistan. It is located north of the district capital of Lodhran. It is situated on the bank of the Bahawalpur road. Adda Zakhira is Situated on its East side, Multan on the west side, Lodhra ...

. He graduated in 1977 from the

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 ...

and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Political career

He was elected to 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 Constituency PP-207 (Lodhran-I) 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) 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 ...

. He received 30,506 votes and defeated

Muhammad Aamir Iqbal Shah Muhammad Aamir Iqbal Shah is a Pakistani politician, who served as a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from July 2022 till January 2023. He also served in this position from 2002 to 2007 and again from May 2013 to May 2018. Early l ...

. He was elected to the

from Constituency

NA-161 (Lodhran-II) NA-155 (Lodhran-II) () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It mainly comprises the Lodhran Tehsil along with some areas of the Dunyapur Tehsil. Election 2002 General elections were held on 10 Oct 2002. Nawab Aman Ullah Kha ...

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 ...

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 ...

. In November 2018, he was appointed as Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Communications.

Early life and education

Political career

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