Muhammad Javed Abbasi

Muhammad Javed Abbasi (Urdu: محمد جاوید عباسی) is a Pakistani politician who was a member of the Senate of Pakistan from 2015 to 2021, representing Pakistan Muslim League (N).Previously, he was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2008 to 2013 Abbasi was born on 6 April 1967.He received his early education from Islamabad and later did LLM from England where he studied In the University of Sheffield.Then he came to back Pakistan in 1999 and practised law for 3 years until he joined politics in 2002 and became the District Nazim Abbottabad the same year.

Previously, he ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2008 Pakistani general election from Constituency PK-48 (Abbottabad-V) as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) and was successful.

He received 22,416 votes and defeated a candidate of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Then in 2013 Pakistan Muslim League (N) again awarded him the ticket for the 2013 Pakistan general election from Constituency PK-48 (Abbottabad-V) and he again went for the seat of Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but was unsuccessful this time and lost the seat to a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf by a little margin.

In the Senate of Pakistan he became the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Law and Justice,and also passed important bills.

“The Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill 2020” was also introduced by Abbasi in which whoever commits rape,molestation of any kind to any human corpse shall be punished with imprisonment of life not less than 14 years and a fine which may extend to one million but not less than one hundred thousand rupees.