Alamdar Hussain Gilani

Summary

Syed Alamdar Hussain Gilani was a Pakistani politician from Multan associated with the All-India Muslim League and, after the Partition of 1947, the Pakistan Muslim League. He served as a member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from 1951 to 1955, held provincial ministerial portfolios in the cabinet of Feroz Khan Noon, sat in the Second Constituent Assembly of Pakistan from 1955 to 1958, and was briefly federal Minister of State for Power and Works in 1958. He was the father of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Yusuf Raza Gilani.