Zain Qureshi | |
Office: | Parliamentary Secretary for Finance |
Term Start: | 27 September 2018 |
Term End: | 10 April 2022 |
President: | Arif Alvi |
Minister: | Shaukat Tarin |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan |
Term Start1: | 29 February 2024 |
Term Start2: | 13 August 2018 |
Term End2: | 18 July 2022 |
Term Start3: | 18 July 2022 |
Term End3: | 14 January 2023 |
Constituency1: | NA-150 Multan-III |
Birth Date: | 1985 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Multan, Punjab, Pakistan |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Father: | Shah Mahmood Qureshi |
Party: | PTI (2018-present) |
Predecessor1: | Shah Mehmood Qureshi |
Predecessor2: | Malik Abdul Gafar Dogar |
Predecessor3: | Muhammad Salman Naeem |
Relations: | Sajjad Hussain Qureshi (grandfather) Zahoor Hussain Qureshi (cousin) |
Constituency2: | NA-157 (Multan-IV) |
Constituency3: | PP-217 Multan-VII |
Office3: | Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab |
Native Name Lang: | ur |
Native Name: | زین قریشی |
Makhdoomzada Muhammad Zain Hussain Qureshi is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024 and previously served in this position from August 2018 to April 2022. He was also a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from July 2022 to January 2023.
Qureshi was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from Constituency NA-157 (Multan-IV) as a candidate of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 2018 Pakistani general election.[1] [2]
On 27 September 2018, Prime Minister Imran Khan appointed him as Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Finance.[3] He served till 10 April 2022, when he resigned from the assembly alongside other PTI members.
He was elected to the Provincial Assmebly of Punjab from PP-217 Multan-VII as a candidate of the PTI in the 2022 Punjab provincial by-election. He took oath on 18 July 2022.
He was re-elected to the National Assembly from NA-150 Multan-III as an independent candidate supported by PTI in the 2024 Pakistani general election. He received 126,775 votes and defeated Javed Akhtar, a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML(N)).[4]
In 2009, Qureshi interned as a legislative fellow in the office of U.S. Senator John Kerry.[5] [6] Following his time in the United States, he worked as a relationship manager at MCB Bank from 2009 to 2012.
Qureshi is the son of a former Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.[5]