Arif Alvi Politician

Arif Alvi (عارف علوی) (b. 29 August 1949, Karachi) is a Pakistani politician, dentist and a parliamentarian. Dr. Arif Alvi is the founding member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and was the Secretary-General of the party from 2006 till 22 March 2013 where then succeeded by Parvez Khattak. Dr. Arif Alvi had previously contested the 1997 general elections as a provincial assembly candidate and later again in the 2002 general elections as a National Assembly candidate. In 2013 he won as a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Constituency NA-250 Karachi defeating MQM's candidate Khushbakht Shujaat with 76,305 votes. He has been the original author of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party constitution and is known to write occasionally on a blog titled Teeth Maestro.

Personal facts

Birth date	August 29, 1949
Birth place	Karachi
Nationality	Pakistan
Religion	Muslim
Education	University of Michigan University of the Pacific (United States) University of the Punjab
Profession	Prosthodontics

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Office holder

office	30px Member of the Secretary General of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf National Assembly of Pakistan
party	Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
president	Javed Hashmi
region	Karachi Constituency NA-250
successor	Pervez Khattak
vice president	Hamid Khan (lawyer)