Makhdoom Muhammad Javed

Makhdoom Muhammad Javed Hashmi
Born	1948

Makhdoom Muhammad Javed Hashmi (Urdu: مخدوم محمد جاوید ہاشمی ) (bornJanuary 1, 1948 in Makhdoom Rashid, Multan) is a Pakistani political central leader of PML-N. An agriculturist by profession, he graduated with masters in Political Science and later in Philosophy from University of the Punjab. He turned to politics in 1985, and has been elected to the National Assembly for the terms of 1985-1988, 1990-1993, 1993-1997, and 1997-1999. From 1997-1999, he served as Federal Minister for Health in Nawaz Sharif's cabinet during his second term. Earlier he had served as a Minister of State for Youth Affairs.

After the overthrow of the PML-N government in 1999 in a coup staged by General Pervez Musharraf, he became one of the most vocal critic of the Musharaf military regime.

In the 2008 general election, Javed Hashmi won a record three seats out of the four contested; he only lost out to Shah Mehmood Qureshi in his home city ofMultan. Hashmi won National Assembly seats from Multan, Lahore and Rawalpindi beating PML-Q leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmed in the latter one.