Farooq Sattar

Farooq Sattar Pirwani (Urdu: فاروق ستار پیراونی ) is a politician from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Farooq Sattar is Deputy Convener and Parliamentary leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a political party in Pakistan. He has also served as Provincial Minister in the Sindh Cabinet for Local Bodies and is one of the senior Members of the MQM Co-Ordination Committee. Dr Farooq Sattar was also heading Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate.^[1] A medical doctor by training, he received M.B.B.S degree from Sindh Medical College in 1986. He is a member of Memon community, and resides in Pir Ilahi Buksh Colony in Gulshan Town of Karachi, a modest and lower-middle income residential community. He was elected mayor of Karachi, at age of 28, youngest to hold this position.^[2]

On 16 March 2008, he was nominated as Prime Minister of Pakistan candidate by the opposition parties in Pakistan.

See also

• Altaf Hussain
• Muttahida Qaumi Movement

References

1. ^ "MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF PAKISTAN 1972 TO 2007". http://www.findpk.com/yp/NA/NA_Members_From_1972_To_1997.htm. Retrieved 8 January 2011. 
2. ^ "Karachi Chooses Mayor, 28" (in English). The New York Times. Reuters. 10 January 1988. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDB163BF933A25752C0A96E948260. Retrieved 8 January 2011. 

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