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President Mamnoon Hussain Arif Alvi Prime Minister Imran Khan Preceded by Roshan Khursheed Bharucha (caretaker) Succeeded by Azam Khan Swati In office 25 April 2006[1] – 15 November 2007 President Pervez Musharraf Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Succeeded by Muhammad Ali Durrani[1] In office 21 November 2002 – 26 June 2004 President Pervez Musharraf Prime Minister Shuja شیخ رشید احمد; Born on November 6, 1950, he is a politician from Pakistan who led Pakistan as the 38th Interior Minister from 2020 to 2022. Rasheed also maintains close relationships with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the political party he founded and is the leader of.
Ahmad was born on November 6, 1950, in Babra Bazaar, Rawalpindi, Punjab. He attended Polytechnic College in his early years and later graduated from Government Gordon College. Ahmad received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Punjab.[5][2] He was a leader of the student union at Gordon College.[6] Political career Rasheed was elected to the National Assembly six times.[2] Ahmad began his political career while he was still a student. Rasheed was re-elected to the National Assembly for the second time in the 1988 Pakistani general election, this time campaigning on the Islamic Democratic Alliance ticket.[2] In 1990, he campaigned again on the IDA ticket and was re-elected to the National Assembly for a third time, eventually becoming the Minister of Sports. He was elected as the member of the National Assembly for the first time in the non-party-based 1985 Pakistani general election[7] from Rawalpindi. Imran Khan was captain of Pakistan when they won the world cup in 1992 under his leadership. He won a second term in office in 1993, this time on the Pakistan Muslim League (N) ticket. Rasheed was reappointed in 1997, and in 2002 the PML-N would not distribute a pass to him. He made the decision to run as an independent[8] and won a sixth term.
In May 2006, he was made Federal Minister for Railways.[9][2][15][16] In the 2008 Pakistani general election, Ahmed ran for the seat of National Assembly on a Pakistan Muslim League-Q ticket, but he lost the election for the first time [8][7][17] from both of his Rawalpindi constituencies, NA-55 and NA-56, to PML-N.[13][18][2] There were rumors that Ahmed had fled "[17] He later left the PML-Q, where he was a senior vice president, and founded his own political party, Awami Muslim League (AML),[9] where he self-appointed himself as the party's president. [2] [19] In February 2010, Ahmed was getting ready to run for the seat of National Assembly in a by-election in NA-55, Rawalpindi, but he lost the election to Malik Shakeel Awan by a huge It was reported that Ahmed had requested a merger between his party and the PTI[23], but the PTI decided not to go for an alliance with any political party.[24] He was re-elected as the member of the National Assembly for the seventh time from Rawalpindi.[21] In public circles, he is known for making witty remarks and political predictions.[9] He was left devastated by this embarrassing loss and was spotted smoking his cigar alone at times.[20] In the 2013 Pakistani He is also known for switching political parties.[2] In July 2017, he was chosen by the PTI as a candidate for the position of Prime Minister of Pakistan in response to the decision in the Panama Papers case.[25] He received 33 votes in the 342-seat parliament but was unsuccessful.[26] He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the AML from Constituency NA-62 (Rawalpindi-VI) in the 2018 Pakistani general election.[27]
Controversies In 2004, Ahmed was replaced as minister-in-waiting by Shaukat Aziz, who would receive then-visiting Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee after the Indian foreign ministry objected to Ahmad's nomination.[32] In 2005, India Today reported that Yasin Malik claimed that Ahmed had run a jihadi camp at Fateh Jung in Punjab, where approximately 3,500 jihadis were trained. In 2005, Ahmed applied for a permit to travel to Srinagar in his personal capacity to visit the graves of his grandparents and meet his relatives in Jammu and Kashmir. However, India denied Ahmed's request to travel to Srinagar.[34] In 2012, Ahmed was detained at Houston airport regarding his links with Lashkar-e-Taiba and with Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, an alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.[33] Later, it was reported that Yasin Malik He was delivered following five hours of cross examination after true dissent from Pakistani Minister in Joined States.[37][38]
In 2014, Ahmed was off-stacked from a Toronto bound PIA trip due to non-issuance of leeway by the Canadian authorities.[39]
In 2018, Ahmad was blamed for concealing 100 kanal (12.5 sections of land) of land from his discretionary papers of assets by Malik Shakeel Awan, Ahmad later admitted he had unintentionally neglected to add the 100 kanal worth of land in his constituent papers of assets, Ahmad won the case however had admitted to his wrongdoing. [40] Books Farzand-e-Pakistan [Son of Pakistan], 1995, 200 pages. His first book was a best-seller and had been published at least 13 times. [41] Lal Haveli Sey Akwaam-e-Mutthahida Tak [From Lal Haveli to the United Nations], 2020, 352 pages. [42] References "Key portfolios changed in shake-up: Durrani replaces Rashid as data serve". Dawn (a publication). 26 April 2006. Recovered 9 February 2022.
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