Chaudhry Muhammad Ijaz Virk is 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 March 2008 to March 2013.

Political career

He ran for the seat of the

from Constituency NA-83 (Faisalabad-IX) 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 2002 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 37,431 votes and lost the seat to Mushtaq Ali Cheema, 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). He was elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-83 (Faisalabad-IX) as a candidate of 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 obtained 56,910 votes and defeated

Mian Abdul Manan Mian Abdul Manan () is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from August 2013 to May 2018. Political career He ran for the seat of the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim ...

. In 2013, he joined

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) after PPP refused to allot him ticket to contest 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 ...

References

Living people Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013 Year of birth missing (living people) {{Pakistan-MNA-stub