Tasneem Ahmed Qureshi ( pa, ) is 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 ...

from 2002 to 2013.

Political career

He served as former tehsil nazim. He was elected to the

from Constituency NA-66 (Sargodha-III) 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 2002 Pakistani general election. He received 40,448 votes and defeated Muhammad Arshad Shahid, a candidate of

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal The Muttahida Majlis–e–Amal (MMA; Urdu: , "United Council of Action") is a political alliance consisting of conservative, Islamist, religious, and far-right parties of Pakistan. Naeem Siddiqui (the founder of Tehreek e Islami) proposed suc ...

(MMA). He was re-elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-66 (Sargodha-III) as a candidate of 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 69,943 voted and defeated Chaudhry Hamid Hameed. He also served as minister of state for interior. He ran for the seat of the National Assembly from Constituency NA-66 (Sargodha-III) 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 29,624 votes and lost the seat to Chaudhry Hamid Hameed.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Qureshi, Tasneem Ahmed Living people Pakistani MNAs 2002–2007 Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013 Punjabi people Year of birth missing (living people)