Muhammad Binyamin Rizvi Explained

Muhammad Binyamin Rizvi
Office:Member of the Provincial Assembly & advisor to the Chief Minister Punjab
Office2:minister of Social Welfare, Women Development and Bait-ul-Maal
Office3:vice president of PML(N) punjab
Term Start:(1st Term Oct 1991) (2nd term 17 February 1997)
Term End:(1st term 18 April 1993) (2nd Term 12 October 1999)
Predecessor:Shahbaz Sharif
Successor:Shahbaz Sharif
Party:Pakistan Muslim League (N)
Birth Date:15 August 1959
Birth Place:Phalia, Punjab, Pakistan)
Death Place:Lahore, Pakistan
Children:3
Profession:Politician

Pir Syed Muhammad Binyamin Rizvi (Urdu: پیر سید محمد بنیامین رضوی) 15 August 1959 - 24 June 2004) was a Pakistani politician.[1] He was the oldest son of Pir Syed Mohammad Yaqoob Shah (a famous spiritual and religious scholar, and member of the provincial assembly who died on 31 August 1991). On 24 June 2004, he was brutally murdered in Lahore near his house.

Education

Rizvi received a degree in civil engineering from the G.C.T Government College of Technology, Lahore in 1980, and a degree from Allama Iqbal Open University in Islamabad in 1981.[2]

Political career

He was elected as a MPA (Member of the Provincial Assembly) of the Punjab in 1991 after his father death. And in 1997, he was re-elected as a MPA from PP-99. In his very 1st term he served as an advisor to the Chief Minister Punjab in 1992, and in his 2nd term he became Minister for Social Welfare, Women Development, and Bait-ul-Maal of Punjab until the proclamation of Emergency in 1999. In 2001, he became vice president of PML(N) Punjab and he held that seat until his death in 2004.

Death

On 24 June 2004, Rizvi was shot and killed, along with his driver and bodyguard by unknown gunmen near the New Campus bridge. Rizvi was buried next to his father in his hometown of Phalia.

Notes and References

  1. News: Pir Binyamin Rizvi (1958-2004) . . 27 June 2004 . 19 November 2011 .
  2. http://pap.gov.pk/uploads/previous_members/1997-2001/dist15.htm#pp99 Pakistan legislature page