Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Agha Siraj Durrani آغا سراج دراني | |
Order: | Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh |
Term Start: | 31 May 2013 |
Term End: | 25 February 2024 |
Deputy: | Shehla Raza (2013–2018) Rehana Leghari |
Predecessor: | Nisar Khuhro |
Successor: | Awais Qadir Shah |
Termstart: | 31 May 2013 |
Order1: | Acting Governor of Sindh[1] [2] [3] |
Term Start1: | 8 March 2022 |
Term End1: | 9 October 2022 |
Predecessor1: | Imran Ismail |
President1: | Arif Alvi |
Primeminister1: | Shahbaz Sharif |
Term Start2: | 3 August 2018 |
Term End2: | 27 August 2018 |
Predecessor2: | Muhammad Zubair Umar |
Successor2: | Imran Ismail |
President2: | Mamnoon Hussain |
Primeminister2: | Nasirul Mulk Imran Khan |
Term Start3: | 11 January 2017 |
Term End3: | 2 February 2017 |
Predecessor3: | Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui |
Successor3: | Muhammad Zubair Umar[4] |
Birth Date: | 1953 |
President3: | Mamnoon Hussain |
Primeminister3: | Nawaz Sharif |
Party: | Pakistan Peoples Party |
Constituency4: | PS-9 Shikarpur-III |
Constituency5: | PS-9 Shikarpur-I |
Term Start4: | 13 August 2018 |
Term Start5: | 27 May 2013 |
Term End5: | 28 May 2018 |
Order4: | Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh |
Successor1: | Kamran Tessori |
Term End4: | 11 August 2023 |
Agha Siraj Durrani (Full Name: Muhammad Agha Siraj Khan Durrani Barakzai) (born 1953) is a Pakistani politician who is the former Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, who remained in office from 2013 till 2024.
He was the Speaker of the 12th Provincial Assembly of Sindh.[5] [6] His father, Agha Sadaruddin, and uncle Agha Badruddin also served as speakers of the same assembly.[5]
Hailing from Garhi Yasin, Durrani first contested elections in 1985 during the Zia regime, in which he lost. He joined the Pakistan Peoples Party and secured a victory in 1988 elections. He is a confidante of PPP chairman Asif Ali Zardari. In 1990, during Nawaz Sharif government he was imprisoned for some time for corruption charges.[5]
Durrani matriculated from the St Patrick's High School in Karachi in 1971, followed by a bachelor of commerce. He also pursued an LLB degree at the Sindh Muslim Law College.[5] During the 1980s, he left for the United States where he ran a hardware business.[5]