Arif ur Rehman Alvi is a Pakistani politician who is the 13th and current President of Pakistan. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. Previously he was a member of the National Assembly from June 2013 to May 2018. An active member of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Alvi was elected as President of Pakistan on 4 September 2018 following presidential elections.
Early life and education
He was born on 29 July 1949. His father, Habib ur Rehman Alvi, was politically affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan. He came to Lahore in 1967 for education. He received a degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery from De'Montmorency College of Dentistry. He completed his Masters in prosthodontics from the University of Michigan in 1975 and Masters in orthodontics in 1984. Alvi is a dentist by profession and served as the president of the Asia-Pacific Dental Federation and of the Pakistan Dental Association.
Political career
Alvi began his political career as a polling agent, and joined a religious party. While studying at De'Montmorency College of Dentistry, he became an active member of the student unions. He became politically affiliated with Islami Jamiat Talaba, a student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (JI) and went on to become president of the student union. He ran for a seat of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of the JI from a constituency in Karachi in 1979 but was unsuccessful. In 1988, he quit JI and left politics. In 1996 he joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and become was one of the founding members of party. He remained a member of the PTI central executive council for a year before becoming president of PTI's Sindh chapter in 1997. Alvi ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of PTI from Constituency PS-89 (Karachi South-V) in Pakistani general election, 1997, but was unsuccessful. He received 2,200 votes and lost the seat to Saleem Zia.
In 2001, he became vice president of PTI. He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of PTI from Constituency PS-90 (Karachi-II) in Pakistani general election, 2002, but was unsuccessful. He secured 1,276 votes and lost the seat to Umer Sadiq, a candidate of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). He served as the secretary general of PTI from 2006 to 2013. He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of PTI from Constituency NA-250 (Karachi-XII) in Pakistani general election, 2013. He received 77,659 votes and defeated Khushbakht Shujaat. Upon his successful election, he became the only PTI member to win a National Assembly seat from Sindh in the 2013 general elections. In 2016, he was made president of PTI Sindh chapter. He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PTI from Constituency NA-247 (Karachi South-II) in Pakistani general election, 2018. On 18 August 2018, he was nominated by PTI as its candidate for the office of President of Pakistan. On 4 September 2018, he was elected as 13th President of Pakistan in Pakistani presidential election, 2018. He received 212 votes votes and defeated Fazal-ur-Rehman and Aitzaz Ahsan who secured 131 and 81 votes, respectively.
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