Muhammad Yaqoob Sheikh | |
Office: | Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan |
Term Start: | 13 August 2018 |
Term End: | 25 January 2023 |
Constituency: | NA-39 (Dera Ismail Khan-II) |
Birth Place: | Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Party: | PTI-P (2023-present) |
Otherparty: | PTI (2018-2023) Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (2011-2018) |
Muhammad Yaqoob Shaikh is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till January 2023. He joined PTI in May 2018.
He ran for the Senate of Pakistan from a technocrat seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a candidate of JUI(F) in the 2015 Pakistani Senate election, but was unsuccessful. He was defeated by Nauman Wazir of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Muhammad Javed Abbasi of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML(N)).[1]
He ran for the Senate of Pakistan from a technocrat seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a candidate of JUI(F) in the 2018 Pakistani Senate election, but was unsuccessful. He was defeated by Azam Khan Swati of the PTI and Dilawar Khan of the PML(N).[2]
He joined the PTI prior to the 2018 Pakistani general election.[3]
He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of PTI from NA-39 (Dera Ismail Khan-II) in 2018 Pakistani general election.[4] He received 79,672 votes and defeated Fazal-ur-Rehman, the Ameer of the JUI(F), who received 52,327 votes.[5]