Islamabad: Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, main character in $ 5 billion Rental Power Scam, has been nominated as upcoming prime minister of Pakistan by the government and its allies.
A short bio of Raja is as follow:
Personal Life
- Locals say his place of birth is Gaujar Khan’s union council Councalia
- National Assembly website says his place of birth is Sanghar, Sindh and date of birth is December 25 1950
- Raja Pervaiz is named after his uncle Col Ashraf who was a minister in former president Ayub Khan era
- His family has no links with politics before his joining of politics
- He matriculated from Gaujar Khan
- After martic, he shifted to Sindh where some of his relatives have lands and where he learnt speaking Sindhi fluently
- After six years he returned to Gaujar Khan
- Â With his brothers, he set up a shoe factory at Gaujar Khan and later shifted to Islamabad in 1976-77
- At the capital they started property business and got rich in a short period of time
- Property business circle says, even presently Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s investment of about Rs. 100 million has been on stake in the property market
Political Life
- Pervaiz Ashraf participated in 1985 non-party local elections
- In 1988 he joined Pakistan Peoples Party
- In 1989 bye-elections he was defeated by Nadir Pervaiz by 120 vote
- During 1990 and 1993 national elections, he was defeated by joint candidate of Pakistan Muslim League and Jamaat-e-Islami
- In 1997, he once again lost elections to PML (N) candidate
- During era of former dictator General Pervaiz Musharraf, he was defeated by Raja Tariq Kayani n in District Nazim Rawalpindi
- In national elections of 2002, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf defeated PML (N) candidate Chaudhry Zaman by 25000 votes
- In 2008, he defeated PML (Q) candidate Qasim Javed
- After PPP government, he was made minister for Water and Power
- On rental scam, he was reshuffled to ministry of Information Technology
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