Abdul Shakoor Explained

Honorific Suffix:HI
Abdul Shakoor
Native Name:عبد الشکور
Honorific-Prefix:Mufti
Office:Minister for Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony
President:Arif Alvi
Primeminister:Shahbaz Sharif
Term Start:19 April 2022
Term End:15 April 2023
Successor:Muhammad Talha Mahmood
Predecessor:Noor-ul-Haq Qadri
Office1:Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Term Start1:13 August 2018
Term End1:15 April 2023
Constituency1:NA-51 (Tribal Area-XII)
Birth Date:1 January 1968
Birth Place:Lakki Marwat
Death Place:Islamabad, Pakistan
Nationality:Pakistani
Party:Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
Predecessor1:Qaiser Jamal
Awards:Hilal-i-Imtiaz (2023; posthumously)[1]

Mufti Abdul Shakoor (1 January 1968 – 15 April 2023) was a Pakistani politician who served as the Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony from 2022 to 2023. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2018 to 2023.

Early and personal life

Abdul Shakoor was born on January 1, 1968, in the Tajikhel village of Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Beginning his religious education at the Madrasah Dara Pizo, he later earned his Master's in Philosophy from Shah Waliullah University in Hyderabad in 1991 and his Master's in Islamic Studies from Darul Uloom Haqqania in 1993. In 2002, he became a khatib or orator at a Jama Masjid located in Peshawar.[2]

He was married twice, with two daughters from his first wife and a son from the second.

Academic career

Abdul Shakoor was a teacher of different subjects such as philosophy, logic, jurisprudence, hadith, commentary, and fatwa at Peshawar's Darul Uloom e Sirajul Islam for some 20 years.

Political career

Abdul Shakoor was elected as the Tehsil President of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) students from Bannu and Lakki Marwat while in the fourth grade and later became JUI-F's ‘Ameer’ for tribal areas and special advisor to Fazal-ur-Rehman.

He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) from constituency NA-51 (Tribal Area-XII) in the 2018 Pakistani general election.[3] He received 21,896 votes and defeated Qaiser Jamal.[4]

Death

Abdul Shakoor died in a traffic accident in Islamabad on 15 April 2023.[5] According to police, Abdul Shakoor was driving when another vehicle smashed into the driver's side of his vehicle. He was rushed to Polyclinic Hospital where he died due to severe internal bleeding. The five people in the other vehicle were arrested.[6]

Awards and honours

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PM decides to award Hilal-i-Imtiaz to Maulana Abdul Shakoor . 17 April 2023 .
  2. Web site: Garwaki . Asmat Shah . 17 April 2023 . Remembering Mufti Abdul Shakoor: A brief biography of the late Federal Minister for Religious Affairs . https://web.archive.org/web/20230716160931/https://tnnenglish.com/remembering-mufti-abdul-shakoor-a-brief-biography-of-the-late-federal-minister-for-religious-affairs/ . 16 July 2023 . Tribal News Network.
  3. News: Party-wise breakdown of NA seats as unofficial final results pour in . 26 July 2018 . Geo . 26 July 2018.
  4. Web site: NA-51 Result - Election Results 2018 - Frontier Region Tribal Area 12 - NA-51 Candidates - NA-51 Constituency Details - thenews.com.pk . www.thenews.com.pk . 1 August 2018 . en.
  5. Web site: 15 April 2023 . Religious affairs minister and JUI-F MNA Mufti Abdul Shakoor dies in Islamabad road accident .
  6. Web site: Federal minister Mufti Abdul Shakoor dies in road accident: Islamabad police. Geo News. 15 April 2023.