Who’s Sindh Meeting Deputy Speaker Anthony Naveed?

A Christian Deputy Speaker has been elected for the primary time within the historical past of Pakistan within the Sindh Meeting, the newly elected Deputy Speaker Anthony Naveed belongs to the Christian group who took the oath of workplace on Sunday.

He has been the deputy speaker from the Hindu group earlier than, however he’s the primary Christian to succeed in this place.

The newly elected Deputy Speaker of Sindh Meeting, Anthony Naveed, began his political profession because the Deputy Moderator of Union Council and following 19 years of political journey, he has now reached the place of Deputy Speaker of Sindh Meeting.

He has the dignity of being the primary minority and Christian Deputy Speaker of Pakistan. Anthony Naveed was elected to the Sindh Meeting within the yr 2018 from the seat reserved for minorities, the place he was the one Christian member of the meeting.

His nomination was introduced by Pakistan Folks’s Occasion Chairman Bilawal Bhutto. Fifty-three-year-old Anthony Naveed was born in a Roman Catholic household in Akhtar Colony, a middle-class space of ​​Karachi.

Anthony says that his father Rehmat Masih was a laborer and had a small personal job. Anthony has two sisters and one brother.

After matriculation from St. Patrick’s Faculty, Anthony obtained a diploma in Garment Expertise Engineering from Swedish Faculty.

Anthony has been very lively on the group degree. He has been Vice President of Karachi Christian Boys Affiliation.

Within the yr 2002, he represented the Catholic Youth Fee of Pakistan within the World Youth Day held in Toronto. Other than this, he has additionally been related to the Pakistan Christian Congress.

Anthony Naveed says he has labored to advertise schooling among the many youth of his group whereas additionally doing profession counseling.

He says that he’s a self-made individual and he needed to work together with schooling.

Throughout the regime of Common Pervez Musharraf, within the native elections of 2005, Anthony Naveed was given a ticket by the Pakistan Folks’s Occasion for Naib Nazim on the Union Council of Akhtar Colony in Karachi, Naveed Anthony was profitable on this election.

In return for his occasion providers, Anthony was made Particular Assistant to the Chief Minister in 2016. After that, he intensified his efforts to turn out to be a senator.

Based on Anthony, Bilawal Bhutto instructed him to be lively in Sindh and in 2018 he was nominated as a member of the Sindh Meeting. Anthony says that he tried to turn out to be a senator and member of the meeting, however he by no means dreamed of changing into a deputy speaker.

Naveed Anthony additionally confronted discrimination in his private life, there are a lot of incidents that are reprehensible in response to Anthony. Even following changing into an MLA, Anthony lives of their shared home in Akhtar Colony.

They are saying they had been born there, married there and had their kids there. They are saying that I dwell amongst my folks, if I depart them, my identification shall be misplaced.