Farooq Sattar

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Dr. Farooq Sattar Pirwani فاروق ستار پیراونی ) is a politian from  Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Farooq Sattar is the Deputy Convener and Parliamentary leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a political party in Pakistan. A medical doctor by profession, he received his M.B.B.S degree from Sindh Medical College in 1986. He belongs to Memon, family and lives in Pir Ilahi Buksh Colony in Gulshan Town of Karachi, a modest and lower-middle income class area. A former mayor of Karachi, he was the youngest mayor in its history when he was elected at age 28.. He has also served as Provincial Minister in the Sindh Cabinet for Local Bodies and is one of the senior Members of the MQM Co-Ordination Committee. Dr Farooq Sattar is also heading Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate. He is a doctor and wanted to become a plastic surgeon but due to some problems he decided to come in politics. He is from a middle class family and his Party's aim is to take middle class and poors on the political structure of Pakistan.

On 16 March 2008 he was nominated as Prime Minister of Pakistan candidate by the opposition parties in Pakistan.

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