Raja Pervez Ahraf — Wikipedia
Raja pervez ashraf or Raja pervaiz ashraf (en ourdou: Raja Pervez Ashraf), né le In Sanghar in the Sind, is a Pakistani statesman. He was Prime Minister of At .
Member of the Pakistani people party, he was a deputy from 2002 to 2013. He was also Minister of Water and Energy from 2008 to 2011 in the cabinet of Youssouf Raza Gilani. After the disqualification of the latter by the Supreme Court he became Prime Minister , elected by the National Assembly for the last nine months of mandate in his majority. Like his predecessor, he conflicts with the judiciary and is accused of corruption.
The , he became president of the National Assembly.
Raja Pervez Ashraf was born in Sanghar, in the Sanghar district, in the south of the Sind province. However, he is from Gujar Khan, located in the district of Rawalpindi, in the north of the province of Pendjab. It comes from a family of landowner in the middle class. Some members of his family have had a political career, such as his uncle who was minister in the 1960s during the presidency of Muhammad Ayub Khan [ first ] .
Raja Pervez Ashraf graduated from the University of Sind in 1970.
He is married and has two sons and two daughters.
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Raja Pervez Ashraf was elected three times a deputy in the constituency n O 2 of Rawalpindi after having successively lost the elections of 1990, 1993 and 1997. presenting themselves under the label of the Pakistani people party, this city in the north of the pendjab is indeed not very favorable to its party [ first ] .
During the 2002 elections, he was elected with 46.9% of the vote against five other candidates in the second constituency of Rawalpindi [ 2 ] . During the 2008 elections, he was elected less widely in his constituency. He obtained 38.8% of the votes and beat four other candidates, including the candidate of the Muslim League of Pakistan (Q) who obtained approximately 33.7% of the votes [ 3 ] .
During the 2013 legislative elections, while his party is clearly defeated, he loses his constituency widely by obtaining 29% of the votes against 52% for the candidate of the Muslim League of Pakistan (N) [ 4 ] . However, he found his seat as a deputy for the 2018 legislative elections where he won 38% of the vote against nine other candidates.
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After the victory of his party, the Pakistani people party, in the legislative elections of February 2008, Raja Pervez Ashraf joined the ministerial cabinet of Prime Minister Youssouf Raza Gilani as Minister of Water and Energy, until , but he no longer obtains a post after a major ministerial reshuffle [ 5 ] .
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The , Prime Minister Youssouf Raza Gilani is dismissed by the Supreme Court for Outraim to Justice and Raja Pervez Ashraf is not the most favorite candidate. It is first Makhdom Shahabuddin who is chosen as a candidate of the party By the President of the Asifier Republic Ali Zardari, but he was then immediately accused by the drug trafficking justice, having granted an illegal quotas of illegal quotas to Multan [ 6 ] . Raja Pervez Ashraf is then appointed as a candidate by the Pakistani people party the day before the vote of the National Assembly.
The , he faces a single candidate, that of the main opposition party The Muslim League of Pakistan (N), after the withdrawal of several candidates, including the Islamist Fazal-Ur-Rehman who withdrew at the last moment after pressures . As such, opposition deputies chanted the slogan “What was the price?” With regard to the withdrawal of Rehman during the vote. Raja Pervez obtained an absolute majority during the vote with 211 votes in his favor against 89 for the opposition candidate.
As with its predecessor Youssouf Raza Gilani, the Supreme Court sends him the injunction to write to the Swiss authorities the letter to request the reopening of surveys for embezzlement aimed at the President of the Asif Republic Ali Zardari [ 7 ] . On July 25, Supreme Court gave him until August 8 to execute the order [ 8 ] .
The , the political crisis suddenly worsens while the Supreme Court orders the Prime Minister’s arrest for corruption and while peaceful demonstrations launched by the religious Tahir-Ul-Qadri ask for early elections. Imran Khan asks him for the resignation of the president and the elections as soon as possible. The ruling party accuses the Supreme Court of collusion with this movement to destabilize the government [ 9 ] . Raja Pervez Ashraf is accused of having perceived bribes in the context of contracts for an energy project when he was Minister of Water and Energy [ ten ] .
The elections, however, took place on the scheduled date, the . The , Raja had given way to the acting Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, appointed by the electoral commission for the smooth running of the ballot.
President of the National Assembly [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
The , in the context of the political crisis, he was elected president of the National Assembly, without opposition, replacing Asad Qaiser after an interim made by Ayaz Sadiq [ 11 ] .
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