Chaudhry Zahid Iqbal | |
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Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 2008–2013 | |
Constituency | NA-162 (Sahiwal-III) |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Pakistani British [1] |
Political party | TLP (2025-present) |
Other political affiliations | PPP (2008-2025) |
Chaudhry Zahid Iqbal is a British Pakistani former politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013.
He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from Constituency PP-224 (Sahiwal-V) in the 2002 Pakistani general election,but was unsuccessful. He received 21,505 votes and lost the seat to Waheed Asghar Dogar. [2]
He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Constituency NA-162 (Sahiwal-III) as a candidate of PPP in the 2008 Pakistani general election. [3] [4] [5] He received 70,634 votes and defeated an independent candidate,Rai Aziz Ullah Khan. [6]
In 2012,his National Assembly membership was suspended due his citizenship of the United Kingdom. [7]
In 2013,he joined Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) before 2013 Pakistani general election. Later,he was disqualified by the Lahore High Court for holding dual citizenship. [7]