Predecessor2: | Nasreen Jalil |
Successor2: | Arshad Hassan |
Party: | MQM-P (2023-present) |
Order1: | Pakistani Parliamentarian from PS-115 from Sindh |
Birth Date: | 17 July 1958 |
Birth Place: | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
Residence: | D-225, KDA Scheme No. 1-A, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
Education: | MSc in Textile Technology and Polymer Materials Science and Engineering - University of Manchester; BSc in Chemical Engineering, NED University of Engineering & Technology |
Occupation: | Businessman, politician |
Term Start1: | August 30, 2016 |
Term End1: | March 13, 2019 |
Office: | Vice-Chairman of Pak Sarzameen Party |
Office2: | 28th Deputy mayor of Karachi |
Termstart2: | May 2013 |
Termend2: | December 2015 |
Termend: | 12 January 2023 |
Termstart: | October 2017 |
Otherparty: | PSP (2017-2023) |
Office3: | Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan |
Term Start3: | 29 February 2024 |
Constituency3: | NA-240 Karachi South-II |
Arshad Abdullah Vohra (Urdu: {{nq|ارشد عبدُﷲ ووہرہ; born July 17, 1958) is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024. He was the vice Chairman of Pak Sarzameen Party. He is a former deputy mayor of Karachi and ex parliamentarian of Sindh. He is a professional engineer with a doctorate and a businessman.
Vohra was born on 17 July 1958 in Karachi, Pakistan, to a Urdu-speaking Gujarati Sunni Vohra family.
Arshad was elected twice as the chairman of SITE Association, in 2001–02 and 2012–13. He also served as the chairman of All-Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) in 2005–2006.[1]
He was elected Member Provincial Assembly of Sindh in May 2013, he resigned from his post after he was nominated deputy mayor of Karachi from MQM.[2]
He was elected deputy mayor of Karachi on August 24, 2016. He took oath in his office on August 30, 2016.[3]
In October 2017, Arshad Vohra left Muttahida Qaumi Movement and joined the Pak Sarzameen Party. He said in a press conference, with Anis Kaimkhani, that MQM-P "had no vision" which was a major reason as to why he left MQM.[4]