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Pakistan President Dr Arif Ur Rehman Alvi Profile, Early Life, Political Career
Pakistan President Dr. Arif Ur Rehman Alvi Profile, Early Life, Political Career
Dr. Arif Ur Rehman Alvi is a Pakistani politician who is the President-elect of Pakistan and will assume office on 9 September 2018, with the regime of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Dr. Arif Alvi was born on 29th July 1949in Karachi in 1947 where his father settled after partition. His father Dr. Habib ur Rehman Elahi Alvi was a dentist to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru before partition. He had inherited the profession of the dentist from his father. His father was also connected with the Jinnah family.
Dr. Arif Alvi is associated with the Pakistan Tareek-e-Insaaf party, prior to his political career, Dr. Alvi was the dentist by profession.
Dr. Alvi had started his political career about five decades ago when he was a student of de Montmorency College of Dentistry in Lahore. He had joined Imran Khan’s PTI as its founding member in 1996. He was Secretary-General of the party from 2006 till 2013. In 2013 he was elected as Member of National Assembly from Constituency NA-250 Karachi and was re-elected in July 2018.
Dr. Arif Alvi also had served as President of Pakistan Dental Association. He was also Chairman of first Pakistan International Dental Conference in 1981 and also elected Chairman of 28th Asia Pacific Dental Congress. In 2006, he was elected as President of Asia Pacific Dental Federation.
In 2007, Dr. Arif Alvi was elected as Councillor of FDI World Dental Federation, this was for the first time Pakistani was elected.
