Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi | |
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| شاہد خاقان عباسی | |
Abbasi in 2017 | |
| 18th Prime Minister of Pakistan | |
| In office 1 August 2017 – 31 May 2018 | |
| President | Mamnoon Hussain |
| Preceded by | Nawaz Sharif |
| Succeeded by | Nasirul Mulk |
| Leader of AP | |
| Assumed office 23 June 2024 | |
| Deputy | Miftah Ismail |
| Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources | |
| In office 7 June 2013 – 28 July 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Asim Hussain |
| Succeeded by |
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| 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 |
| Constituency | NA-124 Lahore-II |
| Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
| In office 14 October 2018 – 10 August 2023 | |
| Constituency | NA-118 Lahore-II |
| In office 1 June 2013 – 31 May 2018 | |
| Constituency | NA-51 Murree-I |
| In office 17 March 2008 – 16 March 2013 | |
| Constituency | NA-51 Murree-I |
| In office 17 February 1997 – 12 October 1999 | |
| Constituency | NA-51 Murree-II |
| In office 19 October 1993 – 5 November 1996 | |
| Constituency | NA-51 Murree-II |
| In office 6 November 1990 – 18 July 1993 | |
| Constituency | NA-51 Murree-II |
| In office 2 December 1988 – 6 August 1990 | |
| Constituency | NA-51 Murree-II |
| Secretary General of PDM | |
| In office 20 September 2020 – 18 September 2023 | |
| President | Fazal-ur-Rehman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 December 1958 Murree, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Political party | AP (2024-present) |
| Other political affiliations | |
| Spouse |
Samina Khaqan Abbasi
(m. 1986) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent |
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| Relatives | Muhammad Riaz Khan (father-in-law) Sadia Abbasi (sister) |
| Education | Lawrence College |
| Alma mater | |
| Signature | |
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (born 27 December 1958) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the 18th Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2017 to May 2018. He also currently leads Awaam Pakistan (AP) as its chairman. Abbasi was the senior vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), and had been the secretary-general of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an anti-PTI coalition of political parties in Pakistan. 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 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.