Muhammad Hanif Abbasi
| Hanif Abbasi | |
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| Member of Parliament of Pakistan | |
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In office 18 February 2008 – 16 March 2013 |
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| President | Asif Ali Zardari |
| Prime Minister |
Yousuf Raza Gilani Raja Pervez Ashraf |
| Constituency | NA-56 (Rawalpindi-VI) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Muhammad Hanif Abbasi 4 January 1966 Lahore, Pakistan |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Political party | Pakistan Muslim League (N) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of the Punjab |
| Occupation | Politician businessman |
| Profession | Politician |
| Website | www |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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