He was elected to the Parliament National Assembly of Pakistan in 1991 and became Defence Minister of Pakistan until 1993. He was again elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as well as National Assembly of Pakistan in 1997 winning both the seats of the two houses. He resigned his Provincial Assembly seat and became the Minister for Education (Pakistan) until 1999. He was appointed Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan for affairs of the Province of Sindh with powers of the Chief Minister &amp; Status of a Federal Minister in June 1999. He continued in this position until October 1999 when General Pervez Musharraf took over in the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état on 12 October 1999, overthrowing the constitutionally elected government.