Sardar Muhammad Umar Gorgaij 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 2008 to 2013. And currently He is serving Member of Senate of Pakistan from April 2024

Early life and education

He was born on 1 July 1952 in Chaghi, Balochistan. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Balochistan.

Political career

He was elected to the

from Constituency NA-260 (Quetta-cum-Chagai-cum-Nushki) 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 40,773 votes and defeated Sardar Fateh Muhammad Muhammad Hassani. In February 2011, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and was appointed as Federal Minister for Postal Services where he served until June 2012. In June 2012, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and was re-appointed as Federal Minister Postal Services where he continued to serve until March 2013. He ran for the seat of the National Assembly from Constituency NA-260 (Quetta-cum-Chagai-cum-Nushki-cum-Mastungi) as a candidate of PPP 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 ...

but was unsuccessful. He received 15,857 votes and lost the seat to

Abdul Rahim Khan Mandokhel Baba-e-Afghan Abdul Rahim Khan Mandokhail (Pashto: عبدالرحيم خان مندوخېل) (12 January 1937 – 20 May 2017) was a Pashtun Afghan nationalist and politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, the Provin ...

. He is currently Serving Frist Time Member of Senate of Pakistan From Balochistan in April 2024 unopposed on Pakistan People's Party ticket

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gorgage, Sardar Mohammad Umar 1952 births Living people Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013