Shafqat Mahmood

Shafqat Mahmood
شفقت محمود
Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training
In office
20 August 2018 – 10 April 2022
PresidentMamnoon Hussain
Arif Alvi
Prime MinisterImran Khan
Preceded byMuhammad Yusuf Shaikh (caretaker)
Minister for National History and Literary Heritage
In office
20 August 2018 – 10 April 2022
PresidentMamnoon Hussain
Arif Alvi
Prime MinisterImran Khan
Preceded bySyed Ali Zafar (caretaker)
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
13 August 2018 – 17 January 2023
ConstituencyNA-130 Lahore-VIII
In office
1 June 2013 – 31 May 2018
ConstituencyNA-126 Lahore-IX
Personal details
Born (1950-02-19) 19 February 1950 (age 74)[1]
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
RelationsZaka Ashraf (cousin)
Chaudhry Jaffar Iqbal Gujjar (cousin)
ChildrenTara Mahmood (daughter)[2]
Alma materSadiq Public School
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Shafqat Mahmood (Punjabi, Urdu: شفقت محمود; 19 February 1950) is a Pakistani bureaucrat-turned-politician who served as the Federal Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training, and Federal Minister for National History and Literary Heritage, from 20 August 2018 to 3 April 2022. Before going into politics, he served as a grade 20 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service.

He was elected a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan in 2013 and 2018. He has been a member of the Senate of Pakistan from March 1994 to March 2000. He served as Federal Minister for the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, the Ministry of Environment, Urban Affair Forestry and Wildlife, and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Malik Meraj Khalid from November 1996 to February 1997. He served as Provincial Minister of Punjab for Information from 1999 to 2000 during the military rule of Pervez Musharraf. He is no longer Member of the National Assembly as he resigned from the National Assembly.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference pildat/dob was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Shafqat Mehmood's daughter Tara is a famous Pakistani actress". www.thenews.com.pk. 25 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  3. ^ @shafqat_mahmood (11 April 2022). "As per decision of the party I have today resigned" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 17 April 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2023 – via Twitter.