Syed Shibli Faraz (Urdu: سید شبلی فراز) is a Pakistani politician who is currently serving as the Leader of Opposition in Senate of Pakistan since April 2024.
[2][3][4] He was born in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and is the son of the late Urdu poet Ahmad Faraz.
[10] In August 2018, then Prime Minister Imran Khan appointed Faraz as the Leader of the House for the Senate of Pakistan, where he served until 4 June 2020.
[11] While serving as Leader of the House, the Senate passed the Zainab Alert Bill, which was brought by the Imran Khan government.
[14][15] As Information Minister, he gave out several statements, as he criticized Leader of the Opposition, Shehbaz Sharif for evading arrest from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB),[16] criticized former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for his alleged overseas assets and money laundering and vowed that the government would bring him to Pakistan from his residence in London.