[2][3] He received 59,022 votes and defeated Khalid Ahmed Khan Lund, a candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q).
[5][1] He became the subject of media attention in 2012 after the high-profile case of Rinkle Kumari, a Hindu woman who converted to Islam in the Bharchundi Shareef Dargah.
[8] In 2015, he was invited by former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman, Imran Khan, to join his political party, a decision that was reversed after protests from the Hindu community.
[9][10] In 2021, Imran Khan's government invited him to a Council of Islamic Ideology deliberation on legislation around forced conversion, a move that was strongly opposed by activists and the Hindu community in Pakistan.
[11] On 9 December 2022, the UK government sanctioned Abdul Haq for forced conversions and marriages of girls and women from religious minorities.