Mumtaz Kahloon

Mohammad Mumtaz Akhtar Kahloon
District President, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Sargodha
In office
29 June 2014 – 23 May 2015
Chairman of the National Vocational & Technical Education Commission of Pakistan (NAVTEC)
In office
21 December 2010 – 15 March 2013
President Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani
Deputy Tariq Shafi Chak
Preceded by Adnan Khawaja
Personal details
Born (1956-11-01) 1 November 1956
Sialkot, Pakistan
Political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Residence Sargodha, Pakistan
Alma mater University of the Punjab
Religion Islam

Mohammad Mumtaz Akhtar Kahloon (born 1 November 1956) is the District President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Sargodha District. He has also served as the Chairman of the National Vocational and Technical Education Commission of Pakistan. He was appointed to this latter position by the incumbent Pakistani Prime Minister, Yousef Raza Gilani on 21 December 2010.

Political career

Mumtaz Akhtar Kahloon has been politically active from a young age. He campaigned for his uncle, Chaudhary Mumtaz Ahmed Kahloon both in Provincial Assembly of the Punjab elections during the 1970s and in the 1990 and 1993 polls for the National Assembly of Pakistan. He was an active member of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Youth Wing.

Mr. Mumtaz Kahloon meeting Mr. Asif Ali Zardari in April 1994

After moving to Saudi Arabia, Kahloon became active in the PPP group in Jeddah, becoming Senior Vice President in 1993. In early 1996, before the assassination of Murtaza Bhutto, Kahloon tendered his resignation to the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, alleging large-scale corruption by some of the party office-bearers in Pakistan.

After leaving the PPP, Kahloon founded and was the first General Secretary of a cross-party Kashmir Committee in Saudi Arabia, which organised fund-raisers and collections of food and clothing drives for the people of Jammu and Azad Kashmir. The committee is now managed under the auspices of the Pakistan High Commission in Saudi Arabia.

Kahloon briefly joined the Jamaat-e-Islami party as he was intrigued by the teachings of the theologian, Abul Ala Maududi.

After the Jamaat-e-Islami chose not to contest the elections of 2008, Kahloon announced in the beginning in late 2006, that he was joining Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) group. He frequently met and discussed the future policies with the exiled leadership of PML-N in Saudi Arabia and was close to the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mian Nawaz Sharif's son-in-law, Captain(r) Safder. At the end of 2007, Kahloon advised Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Nisar Ali Khan and Ahsan Iqbal to contest the 2008 elections soon after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. In the 2008 elections, Kahloon and his brother, Ijaz Ahmed Kahloon, supported Rizwan Gill in his successful attempt to win Punjab Provincial Assembly seat PP-34 as a PML-N candidate. This support was given despite Ijaz Kahloon being rejected for the candidacy.

In the summer 2010, Gill was disqualified from the Punjab Assembly on the grounds of a fake university degree. He was unsuccessful in challenging the decision in the Pakistan Supreme Court and thus the PP-34 seat in Sargodha became vacant. Although Kahloon again approached the senior party leadership to obtain the nomination of his brother as candidate, the party decided to prefer Gill's cousin, Tabraiz Gill. This caused the Kahloon brothers to decide that Ijaz would contest as an independent candidate in the by-election on 26 July 2010. Ijaz Kahloon won that election, defeating both the PML-N candidate and Fiaz Otthi of the PPP.

On 1 August 2010, after the election but before Ijaz Ahmed Kahloon had taken his seat in parliament, the two brothers re-joined the Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP). They had been asked to do so by various senior political figures.

On 16 March 2013, Mumtaz Kahloon left the PPP, alleging that he had witnessed corruption and nepotism among PPP government ministers. He joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf under the leadership of Imran Khan. He contested the 11 May 2013 polls for the National Assembly of Pakistan from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party ticket from NA-66 and was the runner-up in the race.

Mr. Mumtaz Kahloon meeting Mr. Pervez Khattak, the Chief Minister of KPK Legislative Assembly

On 29 June 2014, he was appointed the District President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Sargodha District.

National Vocational and Technical Education Commission

While prime minister, Gilani appointed Mumtaz Kahloon as honorary chairman of the National Vocational and Technical Education Commission (Navtec) in December 2010.[1] He held the post for a little over two years and in April 2011 opposed plans to devolve the responsibilities of the organisation.[2]

During his tenure, he oversaw the unprecedented codification of the NAVTEC body in the Constitution of Pakistan as well as the establishment of the first Code of the Conduct in the field of technical training and education in Pakistan. He was also the driving force behind the national standardisation of all the different technical training curriculums, including introducing 267 new curriculums.

Also during his tenure, Navtec received €20 million in soft loans from Germany, as well as a USD5 million investment from Korea.[2]

Business interests

Kahloon has been interested in farming and agriculture from an early age. He has extensive agricultural landholdings in Sargodha and in the suburbs of Rawalpindi-(Dhalla). In conjunction with Nestlé, he owns and manages a dairy farm in each of those cities, as well as owning the rights to the Sawan Milk brand.

As of 2014, Kahloon is managing director of the City Link Group of companies, which provide transportation and related services in the Middle East and South Asia.[3]

The SS-Suraya Sultan Foundation

Mumtaz Kahloon has established the Suraya Sultan Foundation, which is named after his parents and promotes charitable projects to assist the poor, needy and homeless people of Pakistan. Its activities include the “Sweet Home Project” in Sargodha, an orphanage that has adopted 125 children.

The Foundation has also paid for medical operations, treatment and medicines, including launching over 1000 corrective eye surgery operations, free of charge. It also provides donations to widows and less abled people in Sargodha city and it has funded education for students of limited means through annual scholarships and bursaries.

References

  1. ↑ "PM appoints Mumtaz Kahloon NAVTEC chairman". Daily Times. 21 December 2010. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Devolution of Navtec opposed". DAWN. 10 April 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Kahloon, Mumtaz Akhtar. "Message from the Managing Director". City Link Group of Companies. Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
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