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{{short description|Pakistani politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Shoukat Ali Laleka
| honorific-suffix =
|office = Provincial Minister of Punjab for Zakat and Ushr
|term_start = 13 September 2018
|term_end =
| office1 = Member of the [[Provincial Assembly of the Punjab]]
|term_start1 = 15 August 2018
|term_end1 =
|constituency1 = PP-238 (Bahawalnagar-II)
| term_start2 = 29 May 2013
| term_end2 = 31 May 2018
|constituency2 = PP-278 (Bahawalnagar-II)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|1|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Bahawalnagar]]
|nationality = Pakistani
|party = [[Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf]]
}}[[File:Beautiful view of Punjab Assembly Lahore - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Punjab Assembly Lahore|alt=Beautiful view of Punjab Assembly Lahore - panoramio.jpg]]

'''Shoukat Ali Laleka''' ({{lang-ur|{{nq|شوکت علی لالیکا}}}}) is a Pakistani politician who is the current [[Province|Provincial]] [[Minister (government)|Minister]] of [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] for Zakat and Ushr , in office since 13 September 2018. He has been a member of the [[Provincial Assembly of the Punjab]] since August 2018.

Previously he was a Member of the [[Provincial Assembly of the Punjab]] from May 2013 to May 2018.

==Early life==
He was born on 1 January 1961 in [[Bahawalnagar]].<ref name="pap">{{cite web|title=Punjab Assembly|url=http://www.pap.gov.pk/index.php/members/profile/en/20/1203|website=www.pap.gov.pk|access-date=15 January 2018}}</ref>

==Political career==
He was elected to the [[Provincial Assembly of the Punjab]] as a candidate of [[Islami Jamhoori Ittehad]] (IJI) from Constituency PP-226 (Bahawalnagar-II) in [[1990 Pakistani general election]]. He received 21,077 votes and defeated an independent candidate, Muhammad Tariq Amin Hotiana.<ref name="ecp/pa-88-97">{{cite web |title=Punjab Assembly election results 1988-97 |url=https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/Results%201988%20-%201997/Punjab.pdf |publisher=ECP |access-date=12 October 2018}}</ref>

He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as an independent candidate from Constituency PP-226 (Bahawalnagar-II) in [[1993 Pakistani general election]] but was unsuccessful. He received 37 votes and lost the seat to Noor Muhammad Ghaffari, a candidate of [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)]] (PML-N).<ref name="ecp/pa-88-97" /> In the same election, he ran for the seat of the [[National Assembly of Pakistan]] as an independent candidate from Constituency NA-144 (Bahawalnagar-I) but was unsuccessful. He received 502 votes and lost the seat to Mian Abdul Sattar Laleka, a candidate of PML-N.<ref name="ecp/na-88-97">{{cite web |title=National Assembly election results 1988-97 |url=https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/Results%201988%20-%201997/NA.pdf |publisher=ECP |access-date=12 October 2018}}</ref>

He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-226 (Bahawalnagar-II) in [[1997 Pakistani general election]]. He received 27,467 votes and defeated Mian Manzoor Ahmed Mohal, a candidate of [[Pakistan Peoples Party]] (PPP).<ref name="ecp/pa-88-97" />

He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-278 (Bahawalnagar-II) in [[2013 Pakistani general election]].<ref>{{cite news|title=List of winners of Punjab Assembly seats|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/429935|access-date=18 January 2018|work=The News|date=13 May 2013|language=en}}</ref> He received 38,673 votes and defeated Syed Nazar Mehmood Shah, an independent candidate.<ref>{{cite web |title=2013 election result |url=https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/General%20Elections%202013%20report/Election%20Report%202013%20Volume-II.pdf |publisher=ECP |access-date=12 October 2018}}</ref>

He was re-elected to Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as an independent candidate from Constituency PP-238 (Bahawalnagar-II) in [[2018 Pakistani general election]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Pakistan election 2018 results: National and provincial assemblies |url=https://www.samaa.tv/news/2018/07/live-pakistan-election-2018-results/ |access-date=3 September 2018 |work=Samaa TV |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729083521/https://www.samaa.tv/news/2018/07/live-pakistan-election-2018-results/ |archive-date=2018-07-29 |url-status=live }}</ref>

He joined [[Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf]] (PTI) following 2018 election.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Malik |first1=Mansoor |title=22 independents, PML-Q votes take PTI tally to 153 in Punjab |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1424380/22-independents-pml-q-votes-take-pti-tally-to-153-in-punjab |access-date=2 August 2018 |work=DAWN.COM |date=2 August 2018}}</ref>

On 12 September 2018, he was inducted into the provincial Punjab cabinet of Chief Minister Sardar [[Usman Buzdar]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Punjab Cabinet inducts 12 more ministers |url=https://www.geo.tv/latest/210907-punjab-cabinet-inducts-10-more-ministers |access-date=12 September 2018 |work=Geo News |date=12 September 2018}}</ref> On 13 September 2018, he was appointed as Provincial Minister of Punjab for Zakat and Ushr.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Reporter |first1=The Newspaper's Staff |title=12 Punjab provincial ministers sworn in |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1432569 |access-date=14 September 2018 |work=DAWN.COM |date=13 September 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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