Malik Ahmad Yar Hunjra

He was born on 6 March 1978 in Muzaffargarh District.^[1]

He graduated from Government College University where he was enrolled between 1997 and 2000. He obtained the degree of Master of Business Administration in Finance from Quaid-i-Azam University in 2003 and graduated in Law from Bahauddin Zakariya University. He has the degree of Bachelor of Laws.^[1] He belongs to a political family of South Punjab whose head is Sultan Mehmood Hunjra.

He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) from Constituency PP-251 (Muzaffargarh-I) in the 2002 Pakistani general election.^[2] He received 21,695 votes and defeated Mufti Abdul Jalil, a candidate of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). In the same election, he ran for the seat of the National Assembly of Pakistan as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-176 (Muzaffargarh-I) but was unsuccessful. He received 2,823 votes and lost the seat to Khalida Mohsin Ali Qureshi, a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).^[3]

He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-Q from Constituency PP-251 (Muzaffargarh-I) in the 2008 Pakistani general election.^[4] He received 19,913 votes and defeated Malik Muhammad Yousaf Hinjra, a candidate of PPP.^[5]

He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) from Constituency PP-251 (Muzaffargarh-I) in the 2013 Pakistani general election.^[6] He received 33,502 votes and defeated Muhammad Ashraf Khan Rind, a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).^[7] In November 2016, he was inducted into the provincial Punjab cabinet of Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and was made Provincial Minister of Punjab for Prisons.^[8]