Aon Abbas

Senator
Aon Abbas
President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf South Punjab
In office
4 June 2022 – 1 September 2023
ChairmanImran Khan
Preceded byKhusro Bakhtiar
Succeeded byMoeen Riaz Qureshi
Member of the Senate of Pakistan
Assumed office
March 2021
ConstituencyPunjab Province
Special Assistant to Prime Minister on E-Commerce
In office
24 November 2021 – 10 April 2022
Personal details
NationalityPakistani
Political partyPTI (2021-present)

Aon Abbas is a Pakistani politician who is serving as member of the Senate of Pakistan from the Punjab Province since March 2021. He was the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on E-commerce from November 2021 till April 2022. He belongs to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.[1][2]

Political career

He was elected to the Senate of Pakistan on a general seat from Punjab as a candidate of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the 2021 Pakistani Senate election.

On 4 June 2022, he was appointed as the President of the PTI's South Punjab chapter by Imran Khan, the chairman of the party.[3]

In August 2023, he left PTI and presidency of PTI's South Punjab chapter because of May 9 riots and condemned the involvement of his party in the violence.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Senate of Pakistan". senate.gov.pk.
  2. ^ "Senator Aon Abbas Buppi appointed president of PTI South Punjab". ARY NEWS. September 7, 2021.
  3. ^ "Yasmin Rashid, Hammad Azhar given top Punjab posts in PTI reshuffle". The Express Tribune. 2022-06-04. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  4. ^ "Aon Abbas Buppi quits PTI, condemns May 9 riots". ARY NEWS. 2023-09-01. Retrieved 2024-05-02.