Farooq Sattar
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MNA Farooq Sattar |
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| Chairman Muttahida Quami Movement Pakistan | |
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Assumed office 22 August 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Altaf Hussain |
| Mayor of Karachi | |
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In office 9 January 1988 – 27 July 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Abdul Sattar Afghani |
| Succeeded by | Naimatullah Khan |
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| Born | 1959 (age 57–58) Karachi, Pakistan |
| Political party | Muttahida Qaumi Movement |
| Alma mater | Jinnah Sindh Medical University |
Muhammad Farooq Sattar Pirwani (Urdu: محمد فاروق ستار پیروانی; born c. 1959) is a Pakistani politician who is the current Chief of Muttahida Quami Movement Pakistan (MQM). Convener of the MQM coordination committee, Khan was born in Karachi and educated at the Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi.
Khan began his political career in 1987 as the Mayor of Karachi. In 1993, he served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Provincial Assembly of Sindh and had been a member of the provincial and federal cabinet, in various positions, since 1997. He served as the provincial Minister in Sindh government from 1997 to 1999 and as the Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis from 2008 to 2013.
He had been the deputy convener of the MQM as well its parliamentary leader in the National Assembly of Pakistan and has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and Provincial Assembly of Sindh since 1988, representing Karachi.
Sattar was born in 1959. He graduated from Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi in 1986.
Sattar begun his political career in 1979 after joining then newly formed student body All Pakistan Muttahidda Students Organization Sattar remained one of its active members until 1986. APMSO later a precursor to Muttahida Qaumi Movement.
In 1987, Sattar was made the Mayor of Karachi by the MQM at the age of 28, reportedly, making him the youngest mayor in the world at that time. He served there until 1992.
Sattar was elected as the member of the National Assembly of Pakistan for the first time in Pakistani general election, 1988 on the ticket on MQM from Karachi's south constituency.
Sattar was re-elected as the member of the National Assembly of Pakistan for the second time in Pakistani general election, 1990 on the ticket on MQM from Karachi's south constituency.
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