President Asif Ali Zardari Name Hanif Abbasi Role Politician | Nationality Pakistani Children 3 | |
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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani
Raja Pervez Ashraf Full Name Muhammad Hanif Abbasi Born January 1966 (age 49)
Lahore, Pakistan Alma mater University of the Punjab Similar People Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad, Asad Umar, Abid Sher Ali, Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, Haroon Rasheed | ||
Political party Pakistan Muslim League Constituency NA-56 (Rawalpindi-VI) Education University of the Punjab | ||
Hanif Abbasi called PTI's Rawalpindi show a 'flop show'
Muhammad Hanif Abbasi (Urdu: محمد حنيف عباسى; born 4 January 1966) is a Pakistani businessman and politician. He was elected as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, representing Rawalpindi, on the ticket of the Pakistan Muslim League, in 2008. He was involved in an ephedrine controversy in 2012.
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- Hanif Abbasi called PTIs Rawalpindi show a flop show
- Early life and education
- Political career
- Controversy
- References
In 1986 Mr. Hanif Abbasi was running a general store in Omar Block Allama Iqbal Town, Lahore. Later on after the death of his father he became a branch manager of Habib Industrial Cooperative Corporation Ltd. and then in 1990 he moved to Rawalpindi. This is the surprising story of this businessman cum politician.
Early life and education
Muhammad Hanif Abbasi was born in Lahore on 4 January 1966. His father is Muhammad Khalil Abbasi and he is one of five brothers; he also has one sister. He studied in the Muslim League High School in Lahore and went on to attend the FC College and University of the Punjab.
He started his career as a cricketer in Rawalpindi in 1986.
Political career
As a member of the right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami party, Abbasi scored an upset win in the 2002 by-elections for the NA-56 (Rawalpindi VII) constituency, defeating Sheikh Rashid Shafiq. In 2008 Abbasi joined the centre-right party Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and defeated Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Sheikh Rashid Shafiq's uncle, by a wide margin in the general election. In that election, Abbasi accumulated 73,433 votes; his nearest opponent, Shaukat Hayyat Khan of Pakistan Peoples Party, took 22,720, while Rashid garnered 10,964 votes.
Abbasi was the PML-N's candidate representing NA-56 in the 2013 general elections. He contested against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) chairman Imran Khan in 2013.Imran Khan defeated him with the difference of 13356 votes.
Controversy
Abbasi owns a pharmaceutical wholesale business. He is popular as Ephedrine Abbasi افیڈرین اباسی the drug smuggler. In July 2012 the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) filed a case in the Lahore High Court alleging that Abbasi and several colleagues misused 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) of ephedrine. The ANF filed a first information report (FIR) claiming that Abbasi's company acquired far more than the legal limit of ephedrine. The prosecutor claimed that Abbasi smuggled the quota to a nearby country rather than use it in the local production of medicines. Abbasi and two others were freed on bail. Abbasi has denied the charge, calling it "a blatant political victimization".