Sahibzada Hamid Raza
Sahibzada Muhammad Hamid Raza is a Pakistani religious scholar and politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from February 2024 to August 2025.
He is the current chairman of the SIC, a political alliance of many Islamism and more specifically Barelvi movement oriented parties.
Early life and family
Sahibzada Hamid Raza is a son of former federal minister and religious scholar Sahibzada Fazal Karim, who died in 2013. He belongs to a Punjabi Jat family and has four siblings, his paternal grandfather Sardar Ahmad Chishti having also been an influential religious figure.Political career
Raza was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in the 2024 Pakistani general election from NA-104 Faisalabad-X as an independent candidate supported by SIC. He received 132,655 votes while runner-up Daniyal Ahmed of PMLN received 92,610 votes.In February 2024, he announced an alliance with PTI. Most PTI-backed independent candidates who won their MNA seats formally joined the PTI.
On 31 July 2025, Raza and 195 others were convicted by a court in Faisalabad and sentenced to up to 10 years' imprisonment over the 2023 Pakistani protests. On 5 August 2025, Election Commission of Pakistan disqualified him due to his conviction.