Sahibzada Hamid Raza

Sahibzada Muhammad Hamid Raza (Urdu: صاحبزادہ محمد حامد رضا), is a Pakistani religious scholar and politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024.

He is the current chairman of the Sunni Ittehad Council, a political alliance of many Islamist and more specifically Barelvi oriented parties.

[1] He belongs to a Punjabi Jat family and has four siblings, his paternal grandfather Sardar Ahmad Chishti having also been an influential religious figure.

[2] Raza was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in the 2024 Pakistani general election from NA-104 Faisalabad-X as an independent candidate supported by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

[5] Most PTI-backed independent canditates who won their MNA seats formally joined the Sunni Ittehad Council.