Syed Iftikhar Ul Hassan
Pir Syed Iftikhar Ul Hassan Shah, also known as Zahray Shah, was a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, since August 2018. Previously he was a member of the National Assembly from June 2013 to May 2018.
Early life
He was born on 2 February 1942, in Sialkot, Punjab to Syed family and was a descendant of the Islamic saint Muhammad Channan Shah Nuri.Political career
Shah was a member of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab in 1990. He was elected as a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan for Daska in 1993 and again in 1998. Later, he was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of the PML-N from Constituency NA-113 (Sialkot-IV) in 2013 Pakistani general election. He received 118,192 votes and defeated a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.In October 2017, he was appointed as chairperson of the National Assembly's standing committees on postal services.
He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-75 (Sialkot-IV) in the 2018 Pakistani general election. He received 101,617 votes and defeated Ali Asjad Malhi, a candidate of PTI.