Muhammad Yaqoob Sheikh

He ran for the Senate of Pakistan from a technocrat seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a candidate of JUI(F) in the 2015 Pakistani Senate election, but was unsuccessful. He was defeated by Nauman Wazir of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Muhammad Javed Abbasi of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML(N)).^[1]

He ran for the Senate of Pakistan from a technocrat seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a candidate of JUI(F) in the 2018 Pakistani Senate election, but was unsuccessful. He was defeated by Azam Khan Swati of the PTI and Dilawar Khan of the PML(N).^[2]

He joined the PTI prior to the 2018 Pakistani general election.^[3]

He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of PTI from NA-39 (Dera Ismail Khan-II) in the 2018 Pakistani general election.^[4] He received 79,672 votes and defeated Fazal-ur-Rehman, the Ameer of the JUI(F), who received 52,327 votes.^[5]