inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and was appointed as Federal Minister for Climate Change where he continued to serve until March 2013. He ran for the seat of the National Assembly as a candidate of PPP from Constituency NA-79 (Faisalabad-V) in 2013 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 21,716 votes and lost the seat to Chaudhry Shehbaz Babar. In the same election, he ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PPP from Constituency PP-59 (Faisalabad-IX) but was unsuccessful. He received 12,376 votes and lost the seat to Arif Mahmood Gill. References Living people Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013 Punjab MPAs 1993–1996 1950 births