Sardar Muhammad Yousuf
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| Sardar Muhammad Yousuf MP |
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| Member of Parliament | |
| Assumed office 11 May 2013 |
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| Born | Jalgali Batal Mansehra |
| Political party | Pakistan Muslim League N |
| Religion | Islam |
Sardar Muhammad Yousuf is a Pakistani politician and belongs to Gujjar family of Batal.
Career
He served as Federal minister of Religious Affair and Interfaith Harmony and as a former District Nazim of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[1] He is a member and holds various party positions in the Pakistan Muslim League.[2] In his role as federal minister, he organized the successful Hajj operation in 2013[citation needed].
His political career started with membership of the district council in 1979[citation needed]. He won a provincial assembly seat in 1985 and 1990[citation needed]. He won the Pakistan National Assembly seat for Mansehra for 1990, 1993 and 1996[citation needed].
He joined the PML-N at the start of 2013[citation needed]. He invited Nawaz Sharif to address a rally[citation needed] in Mansehra city during the election campaign and contested the election 2013 on PML-N ticket from NA-20 Mansehra 1[citation needed]. He beat Azam Swati, achieving 10,5432 votes on 11 May 2013[citation needed].
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa controversy
He recently came to prominence for opposing the renaming of the NWFP to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.[3]
Charlie Hebdo protest
Sardar Yousaf led a demonstration outside the parliament in Islamabad in protest of Charlie Hebdo printing a depiction of Muhammad on a cover of the newspaper following a terrorist attack in Paris that killed over 12 people.[4][5]
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