Syed Naveed Qamar

Syed Naveed Qamar

Former Federal Minister For Commerce

Mr Qamar is a member of the Central Executive Committee of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). He has been a federal minister twice (in 1996 and 2013-18), head of the Privatisation Commission (1993) and provincial minister in Sindh (1988-90). He has won consecutive elections to the National Assembly since 1990 and was elected a member of Sindh Assembly in 1988. He also briefly worked as a member of computer science faculty at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences. Mr Qamar is the founder of Parliamentarians for New South Asia which works under a civil society campaign, Imagine New South Asia. He did his bachelors in 1976 from Manchester University, UK, a masters in management from Northrop University, USA, in 1978 and another master’s in business administration from California State University, USA, in 1979.