Waheed Alam Khan
Waheed Alam Khan MP | |
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Member of Parliament | |
Assumed office 11 May 2013 | |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Pakistani |
Political party | Pakistan Muslim League (N) |
Religion | Islam |
Waheed Alam Khan was born on 1 April 1950 in Anarkali, Lahore, Pakistan. He is the third oldest sibling in a family which is involved mainly in Law and Advocacy. He is affiliated with Pakistan Muslim League (N).[1]
Education
Waheed Alam Khan graduated from the University of the Punjab with an M.A in Economics in 1972.
Political career
His father Hafiz Muhammad Sharif Amritsari was the first General Secretary of Lahore of the Tehreek-e-Pakistan movement along with Quaid e Azam – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Hafiz Amritsari was also a poet, writer and a relative of Agha Shorish Kashmiri another poet, writer and a figure of the freedom movement of undivided India.
In 2005, Waheed Alam Khan contested the Nazim elections of UC-72 (Anarkali)[2] which he won and this propelled his political and social work career.
Elections 2013
In the National Assembly elections in 2013, Waheed Alam Khan was selected to represent PML(N) and contest for the Constituency NA-127 area. This ticket was granted to Waheed Alam Khan due to party policy to accommodate party workers.[3]
On May 11 May 2013, Waheed Alam Khan was elected as MNA (Member of National Assembly) from NA-127 with a large margin.[4][5]
The table below summarises the results from NA-127:[6]
Contestant | Party | Votes |
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Waheed Alam Khan | Pakistan Muslim League(N) | 102,136 |
Nasrullah Mughal | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | 45,927 |
Sardar Khurram Latif Khan Khosa | Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians | 6,250 |
Naila Joseph Dayal | Christian Progressive Movement | 2,242 |
Haji Rana Sharafat Ali Qadri | Sunni Ittehad Council | 972 |
Qari Abdul Aziz | Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam (F) | 480 |
Muhammad Abu Bakar Watto | Tehreek-e-Tahaffuze Pakistan | 426 |
Allama Muhammad Hasnain Arif | Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen Pakistan | 318 |
See also
- Constituency NA-127
- Pakistan Muslim League (N)
- Nawaz Sharif
- Shahbaz Sharif
- Lahore
- Punjab, Pakistan
- Politics of Pakistan
References
- ↑ Waheed Alam Khan part of Punjab Central Organizing Committee PML-N, Daily Times, August 2005
- ↑ Local government elections: "Waheed Alam Khan nominated", PML-N Organizing Committee, December 2009
- ↑ "Newcomer Waheed Alam Khan: PML-N", Dawn, April 2013
- ↑ "Waheed Alam Khan gets elected", Dawn, May, 2013
- ↑ Waheed Alam Khan Won the Seat from NA – 127 Lahore X, The Pak Media, May 2013
- ↑ Results of NA-127, Election Commission of Pakistan, May 2013