birth_place president party office birth_date article_title term_end name alma_mater
rahim -rrb- yar khan , british raj -lrb- now pakistan asif ali zardari pakistan peoples party federal minister of pakistan 7 april 1947 makhdoom shahabuddin
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makhdoom shahabuddin

makhdoom shahabuddin -lrb- urdu , saraiki : ; born 7 april 1947 -rrb- is a pakistani politician and a member of the national assembly of pakistan -lrb- february 2008 -- present -rrb- who has held federal ministerial portfolios for finance , health and textiles .
he is from rahim yar khan , a city in the saraiki belt of southern punjab and his political affiliation is with the pakistan peoples party -lrb- ppp -rrb- .
on 19 june 2012 , in the aftermath of yousaf raza gilani 's conviction and disqualification by the pakistan supreme court on contempt of court charges , shahabuddin was appointed by the ppp as its candidate for the office of prime minister of pakistan but the nomination was cancelled after a warrant for his arrest was issued by the anf under suspicious circumstances upon the very day he was nominated .
currently he is the federal minister of pakistan of textiles he is a descendant -lrb- `` sajjada nashin '' -rrb- of a famous sufi saint .
