Masood Abbas
Masood Abbas | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
| In office 2008–2013 | |
| Constituency | NA-6 (Nowshera-II) |
Masood Abbas Khattak is a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013.
Political career
[edit]He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Constituency NA-6 (Nowshera-II) as a candidate of Awami National Party (ANP) in the 2008 Pakistani general election.[1][2] He received 36,835 votes and defeated Jamshaid ud Din.[3] In November 2008, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and was made Minister of State for Local Government and Rural Development where he served until December 2012. From December 2011 to February 2012, he remained in the federal cabinet as Minister of State without any portfolio.[4]
He ran for the seat of the National Assembly as a candidate of ANP from Constituency NA-6 (Nowshera-II) in the 2013 Pakistani general election[5] but was unsuccessful. He received 20,316 votes and lost the seat to Siraj Muhammad Khan.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Top leaders of main parties to contest for more than one seat in elections". Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ↑ "Winning margin on 88 out of 272 National Assembly seats is 10,000 votes or less". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ↑ "2008 election result" (PDF). ECP. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ↑ "Cabinet of Prime Minister Gillani" (PDF). Cabinet division. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ↑ "ANP candidates for elections 2013 - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 27 March 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ↑ "2013 election result" (PDF). ECP. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2018.