Nazir Ahmed is a Pakistani politician who is the Speaker of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly since June 2023. He has also been a member of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly since November 2020. Prior to being elected Speaker, he served as the Deputy Speaker from November 2020 to June 2023.
Political career
Ahmed contested in the 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election on 15 November 2020 from GBA-20 (Ghizer-II) on the ticket of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). He won the election by a margin of 1,767 votes over the runner-up Khan Akbar Khan of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q). He garnered 5,582 votes while Khan received 3,815 votes.
He received twenty-two votes to be elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly on 25 November 2020, while his opponent, Rehmat Khaliq, only revived nine votes.
On 7 June 2023, after a successful no-confidence motion against Syed Amjad Ali Zaidi, the then Speaker of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly, Ahmed was elected as the new Speaker, unopposed.
References
Living people
Gilgit-Baltistan MLAs 2020–2025
Politicians from Gilgit-Baltistan
Year of birth missing (living people) People from Ghizer District