Liaqat Baloch

Liaqat Baloch (Urdu: لیاقت بلوچ‎; born December 9, 1952) is a political leader in Pakistan. He is originally from Muzaffargarh, a remote area of southern Punjab - although his family's origins are in the nearby province of Balochistan.[1]

Liaqat Baloch (Urdu: لیاقت بلوچ‎)
Secretary General of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
Assumed office
20 March 2018
Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami
Assumed office
May 2009
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
18 November 2002 – 23 July 2007
ConstituencyNA-126 (Lahore-IX)
In office
3 November 1990 – 16 October 1993
In office
21 March 1985 – 2 December 1988
ConstituencyLahore
Personal details
Born (1952-12-09) 9 December 1952
Muzaffargarh, Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
Political partyJamaat-e-Islami

He played an active role in student politics in the late 1970s. And at the University of the Punjab where he was elected president of the Students Union in 1976. He also elected all Pakistan president of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba in 1977 and 1978. He holds an MA (Mass Communication) and LLB degree from the University of the Punjab. He was a member of the Pakistani parliament in 1985, 1990 and 2002.[1]

Today, Baloch lives in Lahore and is the Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan's Islamic religio-political party. He was also the secretary-general of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and the deputy leader of the opposition in the National Assembly.[1]

His sister-in-law is Dr Tahira Basharat, an important figure attached to the department of Islamic Studies at the University of the Punjab, where she served as Professor and Dean.[2]

See also

References
  1. "christiansinpakistan". Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  2. Staff Report (6 September 2017), "Punjab University being taken back to the ‘dark days’", PakistanToday. Retrieved 20 Novembre 2019.
  3. Tehreek e Islami


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