Kunwar Naveed Jamil


Kunwar Naveed Jamil was a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from August 2018 to August 2023. Previously, he had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from April 2015 to May 2018.

Education

Jamil held the degrees of Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Science.

Political career

Jamil was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of Muttahida Qaumi Movement from Constituency PS-106 (Karachi-XVIII) in the 2002 Pakistani general election. He received 24,581 votes and defeated Islamuddin Ayubi, a candidate of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal. In November 2005, he resigned from the Provincial Assembly of Sindh.
In November 2005, he was elected as the mayor of district Hyderabad.
Jamil was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of MQM from Constituency NA-246 (Karachi-VIII) in a by-election held in 2015. He received 95,644 votes and defeated Imran Ismail, a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
Jamil was re-elected to Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of MQM from Constituency PS-127 in the 2018 Pakistani general election.

Death

Kunwar Naveed Jamil died in Karachi on 17 August 2023, at the age of 59. He had suffered a brain hemorrhage in June and was admitted to a local hospital.