Abid Sher Ali | |
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Minister of State for Power | |
Assumed office 4 August 2017 |
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President | Mamnoon Hussain |
Prime Minister | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi |
Minister of State for Water and Power | |
In office July 2013 – 28 July 2017 |
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President | Mamnoon Hussain |
Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
Assumed office 18 November 2002 |
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Constituency | NA-84 Faisalabad-X |
Personal details | |
Born | 21 November 1965 |
Nationality | Pakistani |
Political party | Pakistan Muslim League (N) |
Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali (Urdu: چوہدری عابد شیر علی; born 21 November 1971) is a Pakistani politician who is the current Minister of State for Power, in office since August 2017.
Previously he served as the Minister of State for Water and Power from 2013 to 2017. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since 2002.
He was born on 21 November 1971.
Ali was re-elected as the member of the National Assembly of Pakistan on the ticket of the PML-N from constituency NA-84 Faisalabad in Pakistani general election, 2002.
Ali was re-elected as the member of the National Assembly of Pakistan on the ticket of the PML-N from constituency NA-84 Faisalabad in Pakistani general election, 2008.
Ali was re-elected as the member of the National Assembly of Pakistan on the ticket of the PML-N from constituency NA-84 Faisalabad in Pakistani general election, 2013.
In July 2013, Ali was appointed as the Minister of State for Water and Power. He had ceased to hold ministerial office in July 2017 when the federal cabinet was disbanded following the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after Panama Papers case decision.
Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2017, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Abbasi. He was appointed as the Minister of State for Power, a division under then-newly created Ministry of Energy.