Pir Shafqat Hussain Shah Jilani (; born 25 October 1949) 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 June 2013 to May 2018. Died 11 September 2019

Early life

He was born on 25 October 1949.

Political career

He ran for the seat of the

as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-226 (Mirpurkhas-cum-Umerkot-I) 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 ...

but was unsuccessful. He received 81 votes and lost the seat to

Aftab Hussain Shah Jillani Pir Aftab Hussain Shah Jilani is a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to 2013. Political career He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Constituency NA-226 (Mirpurkhas-I) as a c ...

. He was elected to the National Assembly 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 NA-226 (Mirpurkhas-cum-Umerkot-I) 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 82,017 votes and defeated Shabbir Ahmed Qaimkhani, 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).

References

Living people Pakistan People's Party politicians Sindhi people Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 Politicians from Sindh 1949 births {{Pakistan-MNA-stub