Safdar Ali Abbasi

Safdar Ali Abbasi (Urdu: صفدر علی عباسی‎ born 26 December 1957) is a Pakistani politician and physician. He is a senator and the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

Dr Safdar Ali Abbasi
Senator
In office
2020–2012
Personal details
Born (1957-12-26) 26 December 1957
Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
Political partyPakistan Peoples Party (PPP)
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionPhysician

Early life

Abbasi was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on 26 December 1957. His family had long been involved in politics.[1] Abbasi's mother, Ashraf Abbasi, was at one time the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan. Abbasi attended Aitchison College, Lahore, completing Cambridge and Intermediate studies before pursuing a medical degree at Dow Medical College, Karachi. He was interested and involved in local politics during his youth.[1]

Political career

Abbasi contested the elections for Dow Medical College Students Union in 1981 through the National Students Federation.

He joined the PPP, as he approved the positions of the late President and Premier of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. He was exiled during the martial law period. In 1986, he became a political assistant to Benazir Bhutto. When she became Prime Minister in 1988 he was appointed her Political Secretary, a position he retained through 1993.

In March 1994, Abbasi was elected for a six-year term to the Senate of Pakistan, where he served on the Senate Standing Committee on Commerce, Local Government and Rural Development and on the Senate Standing Committee for Health, Social Welfare and Special Education.[1] In 2006, he was re-elected for an additional six-year term.

Assassination

Safdar Abbasi and his wife, Naheed Khan, faced many problems after Benazir Bhutto's assassination on December 27, 2007, in Liaquat Bagh. Both were considered close to Benazir Bhutto and sidelined under the new leadership of Asif Ali Zardari, along with her other close advisers.[2]

Since Benazir Bhutto's death, many of the party workers who were close to her lost their positions in the Zardari government, including party worker and leader of the lawyers movement in Pakistan Aitezaz Ahsan. Instead, many new figures were introduced to fill these positions.[3][4]

References
  1. Safdar Abbasi's Profile Archived 2007-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Nelson, Dean. (31 August 2008) Asif Ali Zardari’s purge ‘betrays’ Benazir Bhutto's legacy The Times. Retrieved 2008-09-11
  3. Blame of Benazir Tragedy
  4. No Response From Zardari On Safdar's Call To Contradict
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