1. Sardar Ayaz Sadiq was born on 17 October 1954 and is a Pakistani politician serving as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, the lower house of the federal parliament, since March 2024.
21 Facts About Ayaz Sadiq
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Ayaz Sadiq is one of the senior members of the Pakistan Muslim League on the federal level.
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Ayaz Sadiq is notable for overseeing voting on the motion of no-confidence against Imran Khan in April 2022; the next day, he oversaw voting for the election of the subsequent Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif.
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Ayaz Sadiq is currently a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from NA-120, having been elected to the Assembly in every election since 2002.
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Ayaz Sadiq received a degree in commerce from Hailey College of Punjab University in 1975.
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Ayaz Sadiq began his political career as a member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in the late 1990s when he was a close friend of PTI chairman Imran Khan.
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Ayaz Sadiq ran for the seat of Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PTI in 1997 Pakistani general election from Constituency PP-121 Lahore but was unsuccessful.
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Ayaz Sadiq received 4,541 votes and lost the seat to Pakistan Muslim League.
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Ayaz Sadiq left PTI in 1998 owing to differences with Imran Khan and joined PML in 2001.
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Ayaz Sadiq was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-122 on 2002 general election, by defeating Imran Khan.
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Ayaz Sadiq claimed "it was a big victory as his leader Nawaz Sharif in exile and Pervez Musharraf, a close aide of Imran Khan at that time, in power".
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Ayaz Sadiq was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-122 in 2008 general election.
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Ayaz Sadiq was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-122 in the 2013 Pakistani general election, by defeating Imran Khan.
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In June 2013, Ayaz Sadiq was elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
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In October 2015, Ayaz Sadiq retained his National Assembly seat by defeating a PTI candidate in by-election and was re-elected to the National Assembly for the fourth time.
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In November 2015, Ayaz Sadiq retained its position as the speaker of the National Assembly by getting re-elected for the second time and become the first person to have been elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly for the second time during the same government's tenure in Pakistan.
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Ayaz Sadiq was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-129 in 2018 Pakistani general election.
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Ayaz Sadiq is generally considered a soft-spoken and cool-headed politician in Pakistan.
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Ayaz Sadiq addressed the controversy and added that his statement was misrepresented.
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Ayaz Sadiq added that "Abhinandan had not come to Pakistan to distribute sweets; he had attacked Pakistan and it was a victory for Pakistan when his plane was shot down".
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Ayaz Sadiq is a son-in-law of former Chief Justice of Lahore High Court and the First Ombudsman of Pakistan Sardar Muhammad Iqbal.