Saturday 4 January 2014

Profile: Salman Yousaf Khan (RTI Activist)

Profile : Salman Yousaf Khan

PROFILE
SALMAN YOUSAF KHAN (GOLRA)
Advocate High Court
Ex- Candidate Member National Assembly, NA-48, Islamabad
CEO The Pleaders
CEO Humanity Assistance & Relief Trust



Salman Yousaf Khan is a practicing High Court Lawyer, Social Worker and a Politician from Islamabad, Pakistan.

Legal Experience
Salman Yousaf Khan is practicing the legal profession since 2009. He has experience of appearing in different courts of Pakistan in different cities in variety of cases. In recent years he has dealt with civil cases, family cases, guardian cases, criminal cases, corporate cases, employment cases, consumer cases, banking cases and so on. He also passed exam and interview of Civil Judge cum Judicial Magistrate conducted by Islamabad High Court in 2012. However, he was not allocated the post because of safarish system.

Social Work Experience
Salman Yousaf Khan is member of Youth Parliament of Pakistan since 2009. He is Founder & CEO of Humanity Assistance & Relief Trust (HART). He founded this organization in 2012. He is also Founder & CEO of ‘The Pleaders’ which is an organization working on legal awareness and human rights. He is founder of Promote Pakistan Project and Coalition to Promote Pakistan Project. He has been very active on the implementation of Article 19-A in coalition with CPDI NGO. Similarly he has been very vocal on the local government system and its implementation in Islamabad in coalition with PATTAN NGO. In 2011 he was part of Seed Pakistan which was a ngo headed by Laila Zuberi. He arranged several events under that organization as a team member.

Political Experience

Salman Yousaf Khan contested General Elections for the post of Member National Assembly (MNA) in Pakistan on May 11, 2013 as the youngest candidate of NA-48 Islamabad. During his campaign he addressed several corner meetings in the constituency. He is still very active in his constituency and constantly meeting people in political circles to make grounds for next elections.