Chaudhry Jaffar Iqbal

Chaudhry Jaffar Iqbal (Urdu: چوہدری جعفر اقبال; born 2 September 1972) is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister of State for Maritime Affairs, in the Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018.

[1] He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) from Constituency PP-113 (Gujrat-VI) in 2002 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful.

[3] He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-113 (Gujrat-VI) in 2008 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful.

[5][6][7][8][9] He received 83,024 votes and defeated an independent candidate, Syed Noor Ul Hassan Shah.

[14][15] Upon the dissolution of the National Assembly on the expiration of its term on 31 May 2018, Iqbal ceased to hold the office as Minister of State for Maritime Affairs.