Isar-ul-Haq Qasmi
Isar ul Haq Qasmi was a Pakistani Islamic cleric, preacher and a member of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan. He had been member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1990 and 1993 representing Jhang constituency.
Born in 1964 to a family which migrated from Ambala and settled in Samundri, Punjab, at the Partition, with a father who worked in the Middle East for years, he was educated in three madrasas in Lahore, and at first went for a business career but then decided to become khatib in an Okara mosque from 1985 onward, where he also established a madrasa, and he would soon gain a reputation for his clashes with the local police, before moving to Jhang at the request of Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, to preach in one of the market-towns of the district.
He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Islami Jamhoori Ittehad in the 1990 Pakistani general election. He received 62,486 and defeated Nawab Amanullah Khan Sial of Pakistan Democratic Alliance.
He was murdered in 1991 during a by-election in Jhang.
