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Hanzala Malik
Hanzala Shaheed Malik is a Scottish Labour Party politician. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow electoral region between 2011 and 2016.
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He was also a Glasgow City Councillor, for the Hillhead ward.
Hanzala Malik was born in Glasgow and was a Glasgow City Councillor from 1995 to 2012. Malik was elected as a Labour MSP for City of Glasgow Constituency in May 2011. Malik is of mixed descent; his father was born in Pakistan and his mother was born in Scotland. He has been married for over thirty years and has two children and two grandchildren.
Malik holds a BSc in Computing with Business Administration from the University of Paisley. He has worked in both the private and public sector including serving as a special police constable and member of the Territorial Army. As a Glasgow Councillor, Mr Malik was a member on the council's key committees, including Education, Development and Regeneration, Finance, Housing, Licensing, Policy and Resources.
Malik was re-elected as a Glasgow City Councillor in May 2017.