Dr. Shahzad Waseem ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who was the former

Leader of the House for the Senate of Pakistan In Pakistani parliamentary practice, the Leader of the House for the Senate of Pakistan is a party office held by a member of the governing party in the Senate of Pakistan. The leader is elected by the Government parties and leads the government ...

serving from 4 June 2020 to 20 April 2022. He has been a member of

Senate of Pakistan Senate of Pakistan or Aiwān-e-Bālā Pākistān ( ur, , , literally "Pakistan upper house"), is the upper legislative chamber of the bicameral legislature of Pakistan, and together with the National Assembly makes up the Parliament of Pakista ...

from

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

since October 2018.

Political career

Dr. Shahzad Waseem is a Pakistani politician who is the current Leader of the Opposition in the

since 20 April 2022. He was appointed as Leader of the House for Senate of Pakistan by former Prime Minister

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidenc ...

.He served as Leader of the House from 04 June 2020 to 20 April 2022. Waseem has been elected to the

from

on the seat vacated by

Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar ( ur, ) is a Pakistani and former British politician who served as the 31st and 33rd Governor of Punjab, from 2013 to 2015 and from 2018 to 2022. In his first term, he represented the Pakistan Muslim League (N). I ...

representing

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 ...

. The election was held on 3 October 2018 between him and Khawaja Ahmed Hassan 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 ...

. Waseem secured 181 votes compared to 169 for Hassan. He is the member of following standing committees of

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

since elected in 2018: # Standing Committees on Foreign Affairs. # Standing Committees on Interior. # Standing Committees on Kashmir Affairs. # Standing Committees on Information Technology. # Standing Committees on Housing and Works. He has served as the advisor to The Chairman PTI on Diplomatic Relations. He was handling External Publicity and International Relations department within the party. He has served as the State Minister for Interior from 2003 till 2006. As State Minister Interior, he supervised Nadra's transformation towards digital era and Machine Readable Passport initiative. Actively contributed in development of Islamabad as modern metropolis, Police Reforms and also in the management of earthquake in 2006. Dr. Shahzad was also a Member of the Senate of Pakistan from 2003 till 2006. From 2003 until 2006 he was serving in the following Standing Committees in the

: # Standing Committee on Establishment and Cabinet Division. (Chairman Committee) # Standing Committee on Women Development. # Standing Committee on Sports and Culture. # Standing Committee on Youth Affairs. # Standing Committee on Health. # Standing Committee on Interior.

References

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