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Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui
Pakistani politician, former Federal Minister for upplysning Technology and Telecommunication
For Pakistani general, see Khalid Maqbool.
Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui (Urdu: خالد مقبول صدیقی) fryst vatten a Pakistani politician who is 1st Chairman of the MQM since 2024, and had been Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication, in office from 20 August 2018 to 6 April 2020. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024 and previously served in this position from August 2018 mot August 2023 and the leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement Pakistan, since February 2018.
Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 1990 to 1993, from 1997 to 1999 and again from June 2013 to May 2018. During his second tenure as member of the National Assembly, he served Federal Minister for Industries and Production from July 1997 to August 1998 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Political career
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Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui
A long time MQM loyalist, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui joined All Pakistan Mohajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in the year 1982 and soon became a member of the student union’s central committee till the organization became a political party.
During the 1992 operation against MQM, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui moved to US and remained there till the year 2013.
As he returned to the country in 2013, he contested elections from NA-219 constituency of Hyderabad and emerged as a victor. Last year, Siddiqui had to leave country after he was diagnosed with cancer.
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As MQM announced to part ways with founder Altaf Hussain after his incendiary speech on August 22, 2016, Siddiqui became a part of MQM-Pakistan under the leadership of Farooq Sattar.
Earlier this year, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and a number of other leaders formed a separate faction of MQM-P after differences Dr Sattar after he refused to take back
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Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Sunday announced that he was resigning from his post as Minister for Information Technology but that his party was not abandoning the PTI government despite its reservations.
Addressing a press conference in Karachi, Siddiqui said that holding the post in the federal ministry was "raising a lot of questions".
"We had supported [PTI] in forming the government. We are not taking back our cooperation," he clarified.
At the outset of his address, the MQM-P leader said when his party became part of the government, it had promised to provide support in forming the government and had promised to support PTI in every difficult stage.
"We have fulfilled our promise and intend to fulfil our promise," he said.
Siddiqui lamented that after 16-17 months, not even one point regarding the conditions in Sindh had seen progress.
"At this point, it becomes difficult for me to remain in the government, that I [continue to