Saeed Akbar Khan Nawani

Saeed Akbar Khan Nawani is a Pakistani politician and a member of the Punjab Assembly since 2024.

Political career

He was successively elected as a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 1985 till 2008.
He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly in the 2008 elections from PP-49 Bhakkar-III as an independent candidate. He received 53,628 votes and defeated Ghazanfar Abbas Cheena, a candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League (N).
He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly in the 2018 elections from PP-90 Bhakkar-II as a candidate of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He received 59,490 votes and defeated Irfan Ullah Khan Niazi, a candidate of the PML.
He was de-seated due to voting against party policy during the Punjab chief minister's election on 16 April 2022.
He ran in the resulting July 2022 by-election as a candidate of the PML, but was unsuccessful. He received 66,513 votes and was defeated by Irfan Ullah Khan Niazi, who was a candidate of the PTI this time.