Monday 4 May 2015

Sardar Muhammad Yousuf Gujjar


Sardar Muhammad Yousuf is a Pakistani politician and belongs to Sardar Gujjar family of Batal.He born on June 01 1952 and completed his education in Mansehra. He served as Federal minister of Religious Affair and Interfaith Harmony and as a former District Nazim of Mansehra District in theKhyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[1] He is a member and holds various party positions in the Pakistan Muslim League.[2] In his role as federal minister, he organized the successful Hajj operation in 2013.

His political career started with membership of the district council in 1979[citation needed]. He won a provincial assembly seat in 1985 and 1990[citation needed]. He won the Pakistan National Assembly seat for Mansehra for 1990, 1993 and 1996.

He joined the PML-N at the start of 2013[citation needed]. He invited Nawaz Sharif to address a rally[citation needed] in Mansehra city during the election campaign and contested the election 2013 on PML-N ticket from NA-20 Mansehra . He beat Azam Swati, achieving 10,5432 votes on 11 May 2013.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa controversy

He recently came to prominence for opposing the renaming of the NWFP to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Charlie Hebdo protes

Sardar Yousaf led a demonstration outside the parliament in Islamabad in protest of Charlie Hebdo printing a depiction of Muhammad on a cover of the newspaper following aterrorist attack in Paris that killed over 12 people.

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