Nazir Ahmed
Speaker of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly
Assumed office
7 June 2023
GovernorSyed Mehdi Shah
Preceded bySyed Amjad Ali Zaidi
Member of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly
Assumed office
25 November 2020
ConstituencyGBA-20 (Ghizer-II)
Deputy Speaker of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly
In office
25 November 2020 – 7 June 2023
SpeakerSyed Amjad Ali Zaidi
Preceded byJafarullah Khan
Succeeded bySadia Danish
Personal details
NationalityPakistani
Political partyPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Nazir Ahmed is a Pakistani politician who is the Speaker of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly since June 2023. He has also been a member of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly since November 2020. Prior to being elected Speaker, he served as the Deputy Speaker from November 2020 to June 2023.

Political career

Ahmed contested in the 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election on 15 November 2020 from GBA-20 (Ghizer-II) on the ticket of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). He won the election by a margin of 1,767 votes over the runner-up Khan Akbar Khan of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q). He garnered 5,582 votes while Khan received 3,815 votes.[1]

He received twenty-two votes to be elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly on 25 November 2020, while his opponent, Rehmat Khaliq, only revived nine votes.[2]

On 7 June 2023, after a successful no-confidence motion against Syed Amjad Ali Zaidi, the then Speaker of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly, Ahmed was elected as the new Speaker, unopposed.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "G-B polls: PTI leads with 10 seats; independents bag 7 and PPP 3 | The Express Tribune". tribune.com.pk. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. ↑ "Amjad Zaidi elected as Speaker of GB Assembly". www.radio.gov.pk. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  3. ↑ Shigri, Manzar (2023-06-07). "Nazir Ahmed Advocate elected GB Assembly speaker unopposed". Samaa. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  4. ↑ Nagri, Jamil (2023-06-08). "GB Assembly speaker ousted, replaced by his deputy". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2023-06-08.


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