Sahibzada Farooq Ali
Appearance
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Sahibzada Farooq Ali
صاهب زادا فاروق علی | |
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9th Speaker of the National Assembly | |
In office 9 August 1973 – 27 March 1977 | |
Deputy | Ashraf Khatoon Abbasi |
Preceded by | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry |
Succeeded by | Malik Meraj Khalid |
Personal details | |
Born | Ghakhar Mandi, British Raj (now Pakistan) | September 5, 1931
Political party | Pakistan Peoples Party |
Sahibzada Farooq Ali (born September 5, 1931)[1] was the ninth Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan.[2] He was elected from the city of Multan.
Career
Ali was the head of the Information and Public Relations department and the Arts and Culture department for Multan and Bahawalpur before going to the parliament. He was the chairman of the Special Committee of the whole House of the National Assembly of Pakistan, proceedings of which were held in camera to consider the Ahmadiyya issue.[3] The Special Committee unanimously adopted a resolution on September 7, 1974 to declare the Ahmadiyya Movement and its offshoot, the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam to be non-Muslims.[4]
References
- ^ Biographical Encyclopedia of Pakistan. Biographical Research Institute, Pakistan for International Publishers (Pakistan) Limited. 1985. p. 29.
- ^ "Speakers / Presidents". National Assembly of Pakistan. Archived from the original on 4 February 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
- ^ Pakistan, National Assembly, Proceedings of the Special Committee of the Whole House Held in Camera to Consider the Qadiani Issue: Official Report Vol 1 (Islamabad: National Book Foundation, 2012), 1.
- ^ Pakistan, National Assembly, Proceedings of the Special Committee of the Whole House Held in Camera to Consider the Qadiani Issue: Official Report Vol 21 (Islamabad: National Book Foundation, 2012), 3081.