Shaukat Ali (born 1976) 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 2018 to 2022.
Political career
Ali was elected to the National Assembly in
2018
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as a member 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). He received 87,895 votes and defeated the incumbent assemblyman,
Ghulam Ahmad Bilour.
On 10 April 2022, after
Prime Minister Imran Khan lost a vote of no-confidence in the
Pakistani parliament, Ali resigned from the assembly on Khan's orders. The new government did not initially accept the resignations of several departing members for fear of reducing the number of members. However, it accepted the resignations of eleven, including Ali, on July 28. Later, by-elections were held again for Ali's seat. Khan made a surprising move to stand on his own in all of the by-election seats.
See also
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List of members of the 15th National Assembly of Pakistan
References
External links
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Living people
Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023
1976 births
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