Sardar Muhammad Yousuf
| Sardar Muhammad Yousuf MP | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament | |
|
Assumed office 11 May 2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jalgali Batal Mansehra |
| Political party | Pakistan Muslim League N |
| Religion | Islam |
Sardar Muhammad Yousuf is a Pakistani politician and belongs to a Gujjar family of Batal.
Career
He served as Federal minister of Religious Affair and Interfaith Harmony and as a former District Nazim of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[1] He is a member and holds various party positions in the Pakistan Muslim League.[2] In his role as federal minister, he organized the successful Hajj operation in 2013.
His political career started with membership of the district council in 1979. He won a provincial assembly seat in 1985 and 1990. He won the Pakistan National Assembly seat for Mansehra for 1990, 1993 and 1996.
He joined the PML-N at the start of 2013. He invited Nawaz Sharif to address a rally in Mansehra city during the election campaign and contested the election 2013 on PML-N ticket from NA-20 Mansehra 1. He beat Azam Swati, achieving 10,5432 votes on 11 May 2013.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa controversy
He recently came to prominence for opposing the renaming of the NWFP to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.[3]
Charlie Hebdo protest
Sardar Yousaf led a demonstration outside the parliament in Islamabad in protest of Charlie Hebdo printing a depiction of Muhammad on a cover of the newspaper following a terrorist attack in Paris that killed over 12 people.[4][5]
References
- ↑ "Cheques distributed among Landa fire victims". Daily Times (Pakistan). 15 September 2008. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ↑ "CMs made provincial presidents of PML". Daily Times (Pakistan). 28 July 2004. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ↑ "Protests held in Hazara against NWFP renaming". The News International. 3 April 2010. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ↑ Wajahat S. Khan. "Charlie Hebdo Attack: Pakistani Legislators Chant 'Death to Blasphemers'". NBC News.
- ↑ "Pakistanis burn French flag in Charlie Hebdo row". The Local. 15 Jan 2015.
