Muhammad Rehan Hashmi (; born 16 December 1973) is a Pakistani politician who was 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 October 2012 to 2016.

Early life

He was born on 16 December 1973.

Political career

He was elected unopposed to the

as a candidate of

Muttahida Qaumi Movement Muttahida Qaumi Movement (abbreviated MQM) is a name currently claimed by two competing Pakistani political factions: * Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London, a political faction managed from the UK * Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan Muttah ...

(MQM) from Constituency NA-245 (Karachi-VII) in by-polls held in October 2012. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of MQM from Constituency NA-245 (Karachi-VII) 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 115,776 votes and defeated Muhammad Riaz Haider, 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). In 2016, he resigned from the seat of the National Assembly to run in election of local government in Karachi.

References

Living people Muttahida Qaumi Movement politicians Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 Politicians from Karachi 1973 births Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013 {{Pakistan-MNA-stub