Zain Ansari
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Zain Ansari is a Pakistani political figure.

Early life

Ansari attained basic education
Education
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 in his native village of Pir jo goth and later studied in Mansoora, an Islamic School (Madrasa) near Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Sindh
is the second largest city in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is the seventh largest city in the country. The city was founded in 1768 by Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro upon the ruins of a Mauryan fishing village along the bank of the Indus known as Neroon Kot...

 Sindh. After earning a degree of Molvi Aalim Fazil in Arabic
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, he joined Sindh University and completed his bachelor degree.

Political career

Soon after graduating, Ansari became a government official in local bodies and served the poor people of Pakistan until 1990. In January 1990, he became a second Hyder Bux Jatoi
Hyder Bux Jatoi
Comrade Hyder Bux Jatoi was a revolutionary, leftist, peasant leader in Sindh, Pakistan. He is known by his supporters as "Baba-e-Sindh" . He was also a Sindhi writer and poet...

 of Sindh and resigned from his Government job. He started a political party
Political party
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 called the Sindh Quami Movement (SQM). From 1990 to 1995 he was a Chairman of SQM and Goth Bachao Tehreek. In 1995, he merged his Party SQM into PMLN and now he is the part of Pakistan Muslim League (N)
Pakistan Muslim League (N)
The Pakistan Muslim League is a conservative political party in Pakistan, affiliated with Western conservatism...

.

During the period of General Muharaf’s
Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf , is a retired four-star general who served as the 13th Chief of Army Staff and tenth President of Pakistan as well as tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Musharraf headed and led an administrative military government from October 1999 till August 2007. He ruled...

 dictatorship, he went to jail
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several times. For five years, he was president of Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD), Sindh Chapter. Currently, he a member of the Central Organizing Committee of PMLN.
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