Salahuddin Saeed Nawabzada

Background

Nawabzada Salahuddin Saeed Khan is the eldest son of Nawab Muhammad Saeed Khan the last de facto Nawab of the former princely state of Ambassador

Career

He holds the record as the youngest parliamentarian ever to be elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan. Nawabzada has held several senior portfolios in the federal government, including his service as Parliamentary Secretary for Production (1991-1993). Nawabzada has also served as Interim Federal Minister for Defence Production.

Nawabzada also served as interim Provincial Minister in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government, from 1990 to 1991.

He has twice led a delegation of Pakistan to the United Nations General Assembly and also at several other international forums, such as the Commonwealth election observer in Kenya, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and the Cancun Summit on Natural Habitat.

Achievements

• After that, he went on to be elected to the National Assembly five times, between 1985 and 1997, a feat only achieved by seven other Pakistani parliamentarians, including the current Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Membership

He later chaired the National Assembly"s Standing Committee on Sports, Tourism, Culture and Youth Affairs (1997-1999) and has been a member of several other parliamentary Standing Committees.