Pir Syed Iftikhar Ul Hassan Shah (; 2 February 1942 – 2 August 2020), also known as Zahray Shah, was 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 ...

, since August 2018. Previously he was a member of the National Assembly from June 2013 to May 2018.

Early life

He was born on 2 February 1942, in Sialkot, Punjab to Syed family and was a descendant of the Islamic saint

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Political career

Shah was a member of the

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). He was a member of the

Provincial Assembly of the Punjab The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani provinces, Pakistani province of Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, which is located in Lahore, the provincial capital. It was established under ...

in 1990. He was elected as a Member of the

for

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in 1993 and again in 1998. Later, he was elected to the

as a candidate of the PML-N from Constituency NA-113 (Sialkot-IV) in

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. He received 118,192 votes and defeated a candidate of

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(PTI). In October 2017, he was appointed as chairperson of the National Assembly's standing committees on postal services. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency

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. He received 101,617 votes and defeated Ali Asjad Malhi, a candidate of PTI.

Death

He died on 2 August 2020, at the age of 78.

References

1942 births 2020 deaths Punjabi people Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 Politicians from Sialkot Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Pakistan Muslim League (N) MPAs (Punjab) Punjab MPAs 1990–1993 Pakistani MNAs 1993–1996 Pakistani MNAs 1997–1999 Punjab MPAs 1985–1988 Punjab MPAs 1988–1990 {{Pakistan-MNA-stub