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Waleed Iqbal

Walid Iqbal
Advocate
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Member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Constituency NA-124 (Lahore-VII)
Personal details
Relations Sir Muhammad Iqbal (grandfather)
Yousuf Salahuddin (cousin)
Parents Javed Iqbal (father)
Nasira Iqbal (mother)
Residence Gulberg, Lahore
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
University of Punjab
Harvard University
University of Cambridge
Occupation Lawyer; politician
Religion Islam

Walid Iqbal is a Pakistani politician, lawyer and law professor. He is the grandson of poet and politician Muhammad Iqbal, and the son of philosopher and former judge Javed Iqbal and judge Nasira Iqbal.

He was the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party's candidate for the National Assembly from the NA-124 (Lahore-VII) district in the 2013 election, but was defeated by Sheikh Rohail Asghar of the PMLN party.

After completing high school at Aitchison College in Lahore, Iqbal went to the United States and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. He received a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Punjab in 1994 and a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in 1997. He also has a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge.

Iqbal specialises in mergers and acquisitions, privatisation, corporate and project finance (particularly in the power sector), financial institutions, investment management, joint ventures, energy and petroleum, asset finance, information technology, telecommunications and software development, and corporate restructuring.


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