Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

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Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
شاہد خاقان عباسی
Abbasi in 2017
21st Prime Minister of Pakistan
In office 1 August 2017 – 31 May 2018
President	Mamnoon Hussain
Preceded by	Nawaz Sharif
Succeeded by	Nasirul Mulk
President of Awaam Pakistan
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 June 2024
Deputy	Miftah Ismail
Preceded by	Position Established
Founder of Awaam Pakistan
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 June 2024
Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources
In office 7 June 2013 – 28 July 2017
Prime Minister	Nawaz Sharif
Preceded by	Asim Hussain
Succeeded by	Himself (petroleum division) Awais Leghari (power division)
Minister for Commerce
In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008
Prime Minister	Yusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded by	Humayun Akhtar Khan
Succeeded by	Ameen Faheem
Chairperson Pakistan International Airlines
In office 27 December 1997 – 12 October 1999
Prime Minister	Nawaz Sharif
Preceded by	Farooq Umar
Succeeded by	Ahmad Saeed
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office 14 October 2018 – 10 August 2023
Preceded by	Hamza Shahbaz
Succeeded by	Shehbaz Sharif
Constituency	NA-124 Lahore-II
In office 1 June 2013 – 31 May 2018
Succeeded by	Sadaqat Ali Abbasi
Constituency	NA-36 Murree-I
Majority	99,987 (48%)
In office 17 March 2008 – 16 March 2013
Constituency	NA-51 Murree-I
Majority	134,439 (54%)
In office 17 February 1997 – 12 October 1999
Constituency	NA-36 Murree-II
Majority	65,194 (58%)
In office 19 October 1993 – 5 November 1996
Constituency	NA-36 Murree-II
Majority	76,596 (56%)
In office 6 November 1990 – 18 July 1993
Constituency	NA-36 Murree-II
Majority	80,305 (59%)
In office 2 December 1988 – 6 August 1990
Preceded by	Khaqan Abbasi
Majority	47,295 (34%)
Secretary General of Pakistan Democratic Movement
In office 20 September 2020 – 18 September 2023[1]
President	Fazal-ur-Rehman
Personal details
Born	(1958-12-27) 27 December 1958 (age 65) Murree, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party	AP (2024-present)[2]
Other political affiliations	PMLN (1993–2023) Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (1988–1993)
Spouse	Samina Khaqan Abbasi ​ ​ (m. 1986)​ [3]
Children	3
Parent	Khaqan Abbasi (father)
Relatives	Muhammad Riaz Khan (father-in-law) Sadia Abbasi (sister)
Education	Lawrence College
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles (BS) George Washington University (MS)
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Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (Urdu: شاہد خاقان عباسی; born 27 December 1958) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the 21st prime minister of Pakistan from August 2017 to May 2018. He also currently leads Awaam Pakistan (AP) as its president. Abbasi was the senior vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), and had been the secretary-general of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an anti-PTI coalition of political parties in Pakistan.^[4] He had been a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from October 2018 to August 2023 and previously served as a member of the National Assembly for 8 non-consecutive terms since 1988.

Abbasi started his political career after the death of his father in 1988, and since then he has been elected a Member of the National Assembly six times for Constituency NA-50 (Rawalpindi). After the PML-N victory in the 1997 general election, he served as Chairman of Pakistan International Airlines until the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état. After the formation of a temporary coalition government following the 2008 general election, he was briefly the Minister for Commerce in the Gillani ministry. After the 2013 general election, he became the Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources in the third Sharif ministry, where he served from 2013 until the disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after the Panama Papers case decision in July 2017. He was elected as 21st Prime Minister of Pakistan by the National Assembly in August 2017.