Muhammad Kazim Maisam | |
Office: | Leader of the Opposition of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly |
Term Start: | 19 July 2023 |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Party: | Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen |
Office1: | Member of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly |
Constituency1: | GBA-8 (Skardu-II) |
Term Start1: | 25 November 2020 |
Predecessor: | Amjad Hussain Azar |
Native Name Lang: | ur |
Native Name: | محمد کاظم میثم |
Office2: | Provincial Minister for Agriculture |
Term Start2: | 2 December 2020 |
Term End2: | 4 July 2023 |
Term Start3: | 2 February 2023 |
Term End3: | 4 July 2023 |
Office3: | Provincial Minister for Food |
1Blankname2: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata2: | Khalid Khurshid |
1Blankname3: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata3: | Khalid Khurshid |
Successor3: | Ghulam Muhammad |
Successor2: | Muhammad Anwar |
Muhammad Kazim Maisam (ur|{{Nastaliq|محمد کاظم میثم) is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly since November 2020.[1]
Maisam contested the 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election on 15 November 2020 from GBA-8 (Skardu-II) on the ticket from Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen. He won the election by the margin of 976 votes over the runner-up Muhammad Ali Shah of Pakistan Peoples Party. He garnered 7,988 votes while Shah received 7,012 votes.[2]
On 2 December 2020, he was inducted into the cabinet of Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid as the Minister for Agriculture. On 2 February 2023, he was also made the Minister for Food.[3]
On 19 July 2023, he was unanimously elected as the Leader of the Opposition in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly. The position had become vacant as Amjad Hussain Azar, the previous Leader of the Opposition, had joined the government after the election of Gulbar Khan as the Chief Minister.[4]