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Pir Noor Muhammad Shah Jeelani

Pakistani politician (1951–2020) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Pir Noor Muhammad Shah Jeelani (Urdu: پیر نور محمد شاہ جیلانی; born 15 September 1951 – 24 December 2020) was a Pakistani politician who served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, since August 2018 until his death in office representing part of the Tharparkar district in Sindh. Previously he was a member of the National Assembly from June 2013 to May 2018.

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Early life

He was born on 15 September 1951.[1]

Political career

He ran for the seat of the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (F) (PML-F) from Constituency NA-228 (Umerkot) in the 2008 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 24,210 votes and lost the seat to Nawab Muhammad Yousuf.[2]

He was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from Constituency NA-230 (Tharparkar-II) in the 2013 Pakistani general election.[3][4][5][6][7][8] He received 61,903 votes and defeated Shah Mehmood Qureshi. In the same election, he ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as an independent candidate from Constituency PS-62 (Tharparkar-III) but was unsuccessful. He received 0 votes and lost the seat to Makhdoom Khalil-u-Zaman.[9]

He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PPP from Constituency NA-221 (Tharparkar-I) in the 2018 Pakistani general election.[10]

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Death

He died in Karachi on 24 December 2020, at age 66, from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan.[11]

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