Arif Alvi

Arif Alvi

Arif-ur-Rehman Alvi (Urdu: عارف الرحمن علوی; born 29 July 1949) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 13th President of Pakistan, in office from 9 September 2018 to 10 March 2024. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2013 to May 2018 and again from August to September 2018. Alvi was a dentist before entering politics in 1979, when he joined Jamaat-e-Islami (Pakistan), but resigned later on from the party and then joined former cricketer Imran Khan's party in 1996 and is amongst the founding members of PTI. Alvi was elected to the National Assembly, from NA-250 Karachi-XII in 2013 and was re-elected in 2018 from NA-247 Karachi South-II. He was later nominated as the PTI's candidate for the presidential election. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arif Alvi has received more than 1,998,544 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Arif Alvi is the 5,313th most popular politician (up from 8,879th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 39th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Pakistani Politician.