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Haleem Adil Sheikh

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Haleem Adil Sheikh
Leader of the Opposition Provincial Assembly of Sindh
In office
26 January 2021 – 26 July 2023
Preceded byFirdous Shamim Naqvi
Succeeded byRana Ansar
President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Sindh
Assumed office
2 June 2023
ChairmanImran Khan
Gohar Ali Khan
Preceded byAli Haider Zaidi
In office
21 July 2019 – 23 December 2022
ChairmanImran Khan
Succeeded byAli Haider Zaidi[1]
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh
In office
13 August 2018 – 11 August 2023
ConstituencyPS-99 (Karachi East-I)
Personal details
Born (1966-02-22) 22 February 1966 (age 58)[2]
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Political partyPTI (2018-present)
Other political
affiliations
Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (till 2016)[3]
Spouse
(m. 2018)
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Haleem Adil Sheikh (Urdu: حلیم عادل شیخ; born 22 February 1966) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from August 2018 to August 2023,[5] and had served as Leader of the Opposition of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from January 2021 to July 2023. Sheikh served as the parliamentary leader of PTI in Provincial Assembly of Sindh from August 2018 to January 2021, and was the president of PTI for Sindh from 21 July 2019 to 25 December 2021.[6]

Political career

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Sheikh was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf from constituency PS-99 (Karachi East-I) in 2018 Pakistani general election.[7]

In January 2021, he was appointed as leader of opposition of Sindh Assembly.[8]

Sheikh was arrested 25 Aug 2022 by the Anti-Encroachment Force (AEF) sindh in connection with a land-grabbing case. The AEF produced him in the court of Malir’s judicial magistrate today. [9]

He was released from jail on 9 September 2022 after a court accepted his bail plea.[10]

On 26 July, Sheikh was removed as the Opposition Leader of Provincial Assembly of Sindh. [11]

On 2 June 2023, he was appointed as the President of PTI's Sindh chapter by Imran Khan, the chairman of the PTI.[12]

On 30 August 2023, Haleem Adil Sheikh was arrested from outside the court building and Police bundled him off to an undisclosed location.[13]

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  • "Mr. Haleem Adil Sheikh", Member Profile, Provincial Assembly of Sindh, retrieved 31 August 2022

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