Background
Muhammad Hanif Abbasi was born in Lahore on 4 January 1966. His father is Muhammad Khalil Abbasi and he is one of five brothers. He also has one sister.
Muhammad Hanif Abbasi was born in Lahore on 4 January 1966. His father is Muhammad Khalil Abbasi and he is one of five brothers. He also has one sister.
Forman Christian College.
He was involved in an ephedrine controversy in 2012. He started his career as a cricketer in Rawalpindi in 1986. Abbasi was the PML-North"s candidate representing NA-56 in the 2013 general elections.
He contested against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf"s (PTI) chairman Imran Khan in 2013.Imran Khan defeated him with the difference of 13356 votes.
Abbasi owns a pharmaceutical wholesale business.He is popular as Ephedrine Abbasi افیڈرین اباسی the drug smuggler. In July 2012 the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) filed a case in the Lahore High Court alleging that Abbasi and several colleagues misused 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) of ephedrine.
The ANF filed an first information report (FIR) claiming that Abbasi"s company acquired far more than the legal limit of ephedrine. The prosecutor claimed that Abbasi smuggled the quota to a nearby country rather than use it in the local production of medicines.
Abbasi and two others were freed on bail.
Abbasi has denied the charge, calling it "a blatant political victimization".
He was elected as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, representing Rawalpindi, on the ticket of the Pakistan Muslim League, in 2008. As a member of the right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami party, Abbasi scored an upset win in the 2002 by-elections for the NA-56 (Rawalpindi VII) constituency, defeating Sheikh Rashid Shafiq. In 2008 Abbasi joined the centre-right party Pakistan Muslim League-North (PML-North) and defeated Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Sheikh Rashid Shafiq"s uncle, by a wide margin in the general election.
