Pervaiz Rashid

Pervaiz Rashid (Urdu: پرويز رشيد) is a Pakistani politician who served as the Federal Minister of Information, Broadcasting, and National Heritage and Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights in the Third Sharif ministry.

[4] Considered a representative of the left-wing of the PML-N, he has previously described himself as a Marxist and as an admirer of Che Guevara and Meraj Muhammad Khan.

[7] When Zulfikar Ali Bhutto imposed the martial law in 1970, as he refused to hand power to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Rashid, despite being a PPP supporter, protested and was eventually put in jail.

Later he'd be appointed the personal secretary to the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and while he was mostly inactive in politics during the rule of General Zia-ul-Haq, he'd re-emerge in the mid-1990s as a close aide of Shehbaz Sharif, being recommended by Nazir Naji.

[11][12][13] He was made to resign in October 2016 from his position as Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage following the report which alleged his involvement in leaking contents of a high-profile security meeting.