Awais Qadir Shah is a Pakistani politician who is currently serving as the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, in office since February 2024. He is son in law of Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah senior leader of PPPP. He previously had been a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, from August 2018 to August 2023 and from May 2013 to May 2018.

Awais Qadir Shah
Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh
Assumed office
25 February 2024
Preceded byAgha Siraj Durrani
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh
Assumed office
24 February 2024
ConstituencyPS-23 Sukkur-II
In office
13 August 2018 – 11 August 2023
ConstituencyPS-23 Sukkur-II
In office
29 May 2013 – 28 May 2018
Personal details
Born (1977-10-12) 12 October 1977 (age 46)
Sukkur
NationalityPakistani
Political partyPakistan Peoples Party

Early life and education edit

He was born on 12 October 1977 in Sukkur.[1]

He has a degree in Bachelor of Engineering from Civil Mehran University in Jamshoro.[1]

Political career edit

He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from Constituency PS-4 SUKKUR-III (OLD SUKKUR-IV) in 2013 Pakistani general election.[2][3]

He was re-elected to Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of PPP from Constituency PS-23 (Sukkur-II) in 2018 Pakistani general election.[4]

On 15 October 2018, he was inducted into the provincial Sindh cabinet of Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and was appointed as Provincial Minister of Sindh for transport and mass transit.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Welcome to the Website of Provincial Assembly of Sindh". www.pas.gov.pk. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. ^ "2013 Sindh Assembly election result" (PDF). ECP. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  3. ^ "List of winners of Sindh Assembly seats". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Pakistan election 2018 results: National and provincial assemblies". Samaa TV. Archived from the original on 2018-07-29. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Sindh cabinet gets four more ministers, expands to 16 members". DAWN.COM. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2018.