Sahibzada Muhammad Nazir Sultan (; 12 February 1944 – 5 December 2022) was 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 ...

, between 1970 and May 2018.

Early life

Sultan was born on 12 February 1944.

Political career

Sultan was elected to the

as a candidate of

Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) ( ur, ) is a Islamist political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1948 by leaders of All India Sunni Conference. JUP exercised considerable political influence in Pakistani politics during 1970s to 2003. Its stude ...

from Constituency NA-48 (Jhang-III) in

1970 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 7 December 1970 to elect members of the National Assembly. They were the first general elections since the independence of Pakistan and ultimately the only ones held prior to the independence of Bang ...

. Sultan was re-elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-67 (Jhang) 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

1977 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 7 March 1977 to elect 200 members of the National Assembly. They were the second general elections held in Pakistan and the first to be held after the Bangladesh Liberation War, which saw East Pakista ...

. Sultan was re-elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-70 (Jhang-V) as a candidate of PPP 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 ...

. He received 61,550 votes and defeated a candidate of

Islami Jamhoori Ittehad The Islami Jamhoori Ittehad ( Islamic Democratic Alliance; acronym: IJI; ur, ) was a right-wing conservative alliance formed in September 1988 to oppose the democratic socialist Pakistan Peoples Party in elections that year. The alliance compri ...

(IJI). Sultan was re-elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-70 (Jhang-V) as a candidate of

Pakistan Democratic Alliance 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 i ...

(PDA) 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 ...

. He received 58,892 votes and defeated a candidate of IJI. Sultan was re-elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-70 (Jhang-V) as a candidate of PPP in

1993 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 6 October 1993 to elect the members of National Assembly. The elections took place after both the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan resigned to resolve a power struggle. Prior ...

. He received 63,516 votes and defeated 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). Sultan ran for the seat of National Assembly from Constituency NA-70 (Jhang-V) as a candidate of PPP 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 ...

, but was unsuccessful. He received 33,483 votes and lost the seat to a candidate of PML-N. Sultan ran for the seat of the National Assembly as candidate of National Alliance from Constituency NA-90 (Jhang-V) in 2002 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful. He received 56,180 votes and lost the seat to an independent candidate, Saima Akhtar Bharwana. Sultan ran for the seat of the National Assembly from Constituency NA-90 (Jhang-V) 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 ...

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 58,099 votes and lost the seat to Saima Akhtar Bharwana. Sultan was re-elected to the National Assembly as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-90 (Jhang-II) 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 52,476 votes and defeated Saima Akhtar Bharwana. He joined PML-N in May 2013. As of September 2017, he was the last serving member of the National Assembly who was first elected in 1970 general election. In May 2018, he quit PML-N and joined

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).

Death

Sultan died on 5 December 2022, at the age of 78.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sultan, Sahibzada Nazir 1944 births 2022 deaths Pakistani MNAs 1972–1977 Pakistani MNAs 1977 Pakistani MNAs 1988–1990 Pakistani MNAs 1990–1993 Pakistani MNAs 1993–1996 Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 Pakistan People's Party MNAs Pakistan Muslim League (N) MNAs People from Jhang District