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Yousaf Raza Gillani
  • Date of Birth:
    June 9, 1952
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Gemini
  • Place of Birth:
    Karachi, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Pakistani
  • Religion:
    Islam
  • Education:

    Government College

    University of the Punjab

  • Address:
    Multan, Pakistan

Family

Yousaf Raza Gillani
  • Spouse:
    Fauzia Gilani

Career

Yousaf Raza Gillani

Trivia

Yousaf Raza Gillani
  • Yousaf Raza Gillani started his political career with the help of General Ziaul Haq.
  • He was handpicked by General Zia for Majlis-e-Shoora.
  • After Zia's death he continued his political carrer with Pakistan Muslim Leaque for a few years and later on he joined Pakistan Peopl's Party.
  • Yousaf Raza, managed to defeat Nawaz Sharif in 1988, when he contested four national and four provincial seats throughout the province, his first test of acceptability among the voters of his home province.
  • Yousaf was then on a PPP ticket, but that was by no means his first election.
  • He had already contested in 1985 for the National Assembly and had won in a partyless election.
  • He served Junejo as a minister, and thus was one of the few experienced people elected on a PPP ticket in 1988.
  • Accordingly, he served in the Benazir cabinet as Housing and Works minister.
  • Since the minister was the one responsible for allotting all official accommodation apart from that already dedicated to various ministries, he was obliged to engage in a lot of public dealing, which he did not really enjoy, but which he engaged in with a modicum of enthusiasm.
  • During the opposition years, he spent some time behind bars over the Long March, though elected to the National Assembly again.

Quotes

Yousaf Raza Gillani
  • "Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace."
  • "Militarily we will win the war but it will be unfortunate if we loose it publicly."
  • "We hope that Indian occupying forces will cease human rights abuses and violence will come to an end."
  • "The joint statement signed by me and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underlines our concerns over Indian's interference in Balochistan and the other areas."
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Biography

Yousaf Raza Gillani
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Yusuf RazaYousaf Raza Gillani is the present Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party. He is from Multan, and from the Gillani family, which is descended from Syed Abdul Qadir, who was both a Hassani and Hussaini Syed (from his mother), of Gilan. This family is the caretaker of the shrine of Hazrat Musa Pak, who is their ancestor. It is not as prominent as the Qureshis, who are the representatives of such famous Pirs of Multan as Shah Shams Tabrez and Shah Ruknuddin Alam, but still the Gillanis of Multan have been prominent enough for them to have been governors of the old Multan subah under the Mughals, and for the head of the family to have been a provincial darbari under the British Raj.

One of them, Syed Alamdar Hussain Gillani, was a member of the initial federal cabinets of Pakistan. He is also closely related to Pir Pagara. Alamdar Gillani, the father of Yousaf Raza Gillani had also been a very active and influential politician.

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