Murad Saeed
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Murad Saeed | |
|---|---|
| مراد سعید | |
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| Federal Minister for Communications and Postal Services | |
| In office 17 December 2018 – 10 April 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Imran Khan |
| Preceded by | Himself as State Minister |
| Minister of State for Postal Services | |
| In office 26 October 2018 – 17 December 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Imran Khan |
| Succeeded by | Himself as Federal Minister |
| Minister of State for Communications | |
| In office 18 September 2018 – 17 December 2018 | |
| Succeeded by | Himself as Federal Minister |
| Prime Minister | Imran Khan |
| Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions | |
| In office 11 September 2018 – 18 September 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Imran Khan |
| Succeeded by | Shehryar Afridi |
| Member of the Parliament of Pakistan | |
| In office 27 July 2025 – 26 March 2026 | |
| Constituency | General Seat from KPK |
| In office 13 August 2018 – 17 January 2023 | |
| Constituency | NA-4 (Swat-III) |
| In office 1 June 2013 – 31 May 2018 | |
| Constituency | NA-29 (Swat-I) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 17, 1986 |
| Party | PTI (2007-present) |
Murad Saeed (Urdu: مراد سعید; born 17 August 1986) is a Pakistani politician who served as Federal Minister for Communications and Federal Minister for Postal Services from December 2018 to April 2022.
Previously, he served as Minister of State for Communications and Minister of State for Postal Services from 18 September 2018 and 26 October 2018, respectively to December 2018. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, from August 2018 till January 2023. Previously, he served as Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions from 11 September to 18 September 2018.[1]
He had also been a member of the National Assembly from June 2013 to May 2018. His term as minister ended on 10 April 2022 when the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan was successful.
Murad Saeed Khan was born on 17 August 1986 at Kabal, Swat.[2]
Saeed holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Peshawar.[3]
Political career
Student politics
Saeed was the founder of Insaf Student Federation, the student wing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa[3] and remained its central president for four years.[4]
National Assembly
Saeed was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of PTI from Constituency NA-29 Swat in the 2013 Pakistani general election.[5][6][3]
He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PTI from Constituency NA-4 (Swat-III) in the 2018 Pakistani general election.[7] He received 71,600 votes and defeated Saleem Khan, a candidate of Awami National Party (ANP).[8]
Ministerial positions
On 11 September 2018, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Imran Khan[9] and was appointed Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions.[10][11] On 18 September, his ministerial portfolio was changed and he was appointed Minister of State for Communications.[12] On 26 October 2018, he was given the additional ministerial portfolio of Postal Services[13] and was appointed Minister of State for Postal Services.[14]
On 17 December 2018, he was elevated as Federal Minister[15] and was appointed Federal Minister for Communications, and Federal Minister for Postal Services.[16]
In 2020 the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) found Rs 12.3 billion in fraud and irregularities in the Post Office Department, with a 64 cases of "fraud, misappropriation, embezzlement, theft and dacoity of public", among others, and said it could not authenticate Rs 932bn worth of revenue and Rs 881bn in expenditure due to unapproved methods of accounting and agency accounts maintenance. AGP also reported instances of unbudgeted payments, overpayments, unacknowledged or unadjusted remittances, understating assets, and government accounts (savings, remittances, and BISP) in deficit despite incentive payments to employees.[17] The Pakistan Observer also reported that following an audit into the National Highways Authority (NHA), revealing mismanagement and maladministration, "no apparent action has been taken by Murad Saeed, Minister for Communications on the audit observations so far."[18]
Prime Minister Imran Khan in 2022 announced Murad Saeed as "best performing minister" in the federal cabinet.[19][20]
