Miftah Ismail Ahmad, Minister of the State for Finance, who also presented PMLN’s past Government’s Last year’s budget in the absence of Ishaq Dar is the rightful owner of the Candyland company which made my childhood a Dream. If you are a 90’s Kid, have you ever sang along with the advert jingle: “Abhi lao abhi khao; Candyland ki Chocolate Now”. Well, I for the one always did and took the Chocolate “Now” as part of my lunch for the school. Miftah Ismail remained a Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) candidate from NA 244. He contested for the first time against Ali Zaidi from Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf, Ali Raza Abidi of Pakistan People Party, and Zahid Saeed of Jamat e Islami.
The candidature split of KHI Election 2018 about the constituency of NA 244:
- TLP. Syed Jilan Shah
- PTI. Ali Zaidi
- PPP. Saeed Ghani
- PML N. Miftah Ismail
- MMA. Zahid Saeed
- MQM. Rauf Siddiqui
The Start of Miftah’s Political Campaign:
Miftah Ismail’s family background also supports his candidature. He is a memon. He is Sunni-Barelvi. He is monetarily rich. To the advantage of Miftah, he and his entire family are from KCCI and FPCCI. All the Memon community also supports him. There had been an online Twitter trend #MiftahForKarachi. He has also met, Dawat e Islami, Nigran e Shura Haji Imran, Haji Amin, Abdul Habib also. Shiekh Tareeqat performed Tauba Bait and Dua for his success.
Miftah Ismail has done much to promote business related activities in Karachi including law & order control and load shedding
Munawar Younus
Miftah had done a door-to-door campaign in NA 244 as it is a constituency of the Dhoraji Memon majority. His agenda drives through the massive business development projects and new opportunities for Karachi, securing the rights of individuals & ensuring them with an uninterrupted supply of basic facilities i.e. water, electricity, and gas. He is very courteous, and I learned through my interaction with him that I misspelled his name and he did not mind.
Something on Miftah Ismail’s Career
I got myself acquainted with him as an influencer while I was doing my internship with SLB or Schlumberger. I was reading his article in Dawn Newspaper. Those were Ramadans of July-August 2012 and we had the liberty of taking extra-long breaks. Anyways it was a 2-minute read. And man! I was flabbergasted that PMLN had such minds. So composed in thought and youthful. Although, elections had not yet taken place but reading his impressive remarks on the then KSE, and now PSX, gave me good vibes about this person. That he soon could participate in the electoral from Karachi.
Something on Miftah Ismail’s Educational Background is really interesting. Dr. Miftah Ismail Ahmad, who is a Bachelor of Science from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, and Studied at the University of Pennsylvania, later did his Ph.D. from The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA. His discipline majors in Public Finance and Political Economy. Miftah remained as an Economist at International Monetary Fund from August 1992 till May 1993. A decade later, he acted as Vice Chairman Punjab Board of Investment & Trade (PBIT) from Jan 2012 – to Dec 2012. He also served as Director of Pakistan International Airlines for seven months starting from Oct 2013 and lasting till Jun 2014. He also has experience of remaining as Director of Sui Southern Gas Company from Oct 2013 onwards.
Beggars can’t be choosers
