Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq
Ex MNA
Ex Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Personal details
Born (1945-02-22) 22 February 1945
Toba Tek Singh, Punjab, Pakistan
Political partyIstehkam-e-Pakistan Party (since 2023)
Other political
affiliations
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (2011–2022)
Pakistan Muslim League-Q (2002–2011)
Pakistan Muslim League-N (1997–2002)
Pakistan Peoples Party (1988–1997)

Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq (born 22 February 1945) is a Pakistani politician of the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party. He was elected as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and Provincial Assembly of the Punjab.[1]

Political career

Ashfaq was elected as Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Punjab in the 1988 general election from Toba Tek Singh as a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party.

He was defeated in the general election of 1990.

He was elected as Member National Assembly (MNA) Pakistan in the 1993 general election as a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party.

Ashfaq was defeated in the general election 1997. Later he joined the Pakistan Muslim League-N.

In 2001, he was elected as District Nazim Toba Tek Singh.

In 2005, he was defeated in the election of District Nazim by Chaudhry Abdul Sattar, who was the grandfather of Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry of Pakistan Muslim League-N.

He was defeated in the MNA seat in the 2008 Pakistani general election as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League-Q by Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry of Pakistan Muslim League-N.

Ashfaq was again defeated in the MNA seat in the 2013 Pakistani general election as a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf by Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry of Pakistan Muslim League-N.

He was again defeated in the MNA seat in the 2018 Pakistani general election as a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf by Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry of Pakistan Muslim League-N, who won for the third time consecutively.

In 2023, Ashfaq joined the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party. This is the fifth time in his political career that he has switched loyalities.

Personal life

Pakistani industrialist Mian Muhammad Latif, the founder of Chenab Group, is his brother.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "No rules in power politics". DAWN.COM. January 17, 2006.


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