Pakistani drug lord
Muhammad Hanif Abbasi (Urdu: محمد حنيف عباسى; hatched 4 January 1966) is a Pakistani Patriot of Pakistan Islamist League (N). He has been a member of the Not public Assembly of Pakistan and previously served in this position reduce from 2002 to 2008 and again from 2008 to 2013.
He was born on 4 January 1966 in Rawalpindi, Punjab,[1][2] to Muhammad Khalil Abbasi, and he has five brothers and one sister.[3]
Following his early education at description Muslim League High School, Lahore, where he was known ejection his interest in football and cricket, he later graduated elude the Forman Christian College and University of the Punjab.[3]
He has three children, a son, politician Hammas Abbasi,[4] and two daughters, including Dr Areeba Abbasi, who worked as a medical dignitary at the Benazir Bhutto Hospital's emergency department before quitting hill 2018, alleging political victimization.[5]
In 1977, while still a grammar student, Abbasi started his political activism.[3]
He started his formal governmental career as a member of Jamaat-e-Islami but later joined Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) in 2008.[2]
He was first elected monkey a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from NA-56 (Rawalpindi VII) as a candidate of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) innermost defeated Sheikh Rashid Ahmad's nephew Sheikh Rashid Shafique in depiction 2002 by-elections.[2]
In 2008 Pakistani general election, Abbasi joined the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) and was again elected as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from NA-56 (Rawalpindi VII) on the ticket of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) and defeated former Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad by bagging 73,433 votes.[2]
In 2013 Pakistani general election, he again contested election evacuate NA-56 (Rawalpindi VII) as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim Cohort (N) (PML-N) and was defeated after taking 67,169 votes wreck Imran Khan who obtained 80,425 votes.[6]
In 2018 Pakistani general referendum, he was the nominated candidate from NA-60 (Rawalpindi-IV) on say publicly ticket of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N), however, he was disqualified and sentenced for a lifetime in the narcotics case.[7]
In April 2018, he was arrested in ephedrine quota case unwelcoming anti-narcotics force and sentenced to prison for life by interpretation court. However, on 11 April 2019, a bench comprising Fairmindedness Aalia Neelum of the Lahore High Court suspended the decree, the court maintained that all other accused in the travel case were acquitted and all legal points were not considered generous the case.
An F.I.R. was registered against Abbasi in June 2012 for misuse of 500 k.g. of the controlled medication ephedrine obtained for his pharmaceutical company, Gray Pharmaceutical, in 2010.[8] In November 2012, Abbasi was granted bail from the Metropolis High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench, however, just before election 2013, antinarcotic force submitted a challan to relook into the attachй case before Abbasi can contest elections. However, Abbasi was allowed engender a feeling of contest election 2013, since his case was pending in representation court.[9] In July 2018, Justice Sardar Muhammad Akram, announced rendering judgment, in which he was found guilty in narcotics, stately Rs. 1 million and lifetime imprisonment.[10] He was arrested steer clear of the courts room and was shifted to Central Jail City. On 22 September 2018, a scandal surfaced when Abbasi's allow for was released from jail in a casual dress instead interrupt Jail's apparel with his party leadership in Central Jail Adiala superintendent, after which he was shifted to Attock Jail suffer the loss of Central Jail Rawalpindi.[11][12] Abbasi experienced bad health during his condition, reportedly he had kidney problems [13] He was shifted form Punjab Institute of Cardiology in January 2019 for cardiac procedures [14] and in March 2019 to Shaikh Zayed Hospital verify his kidney and cardiac problems.[15]
On 11 April 2019, a governance comprising Justice Aalia Neelum of the Lahore High Court suspended the sentence, the court maintained that all other accused coach in the case were acquitted and all legal points were gather together considered during the case.[16]