{"id":893,"date":"2026-07-14T19:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/malik-amir-dogar\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:19:02","slug":"malik-amir-dogar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/saraiki-politicians\/malik-amir-dogar\/","title":{"rendered":"Malik Amir Dogar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malik Muhammad Amir Dogar (born 1 January 1972) is a Pakistani politician from Multan who has served in the National Assembly of Pakistan across several terms since 2014. His father was Senator Malik Salah-ud-Din Dogar.<\/p>\n<p>Dogar holds an MA in Political Science and an LLB. He was elected Mayor of Multan in 2002 and later won a seat in the Provincial Assembly of Punjab on a Pakistan Peoples Party ticket in 2008. In 2014, contesting as an independent candidate backed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), he won a closely watched National Assembly by-election in Multan, defeating veteran politician Javed Hashmi.<\/p>\n<p>Dogar was re-elected to the National Assembly on a PTI ticket in 2018, and served as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs from 2020 to 2022 during Imran Khan&#8217;s government, alongside chairing a National Assembly standing committee.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2024 general election, Dogar was re-elected from NA-149 Multan-II as a PTI-backed independent candidate, defeating businessman-politician Jahangir Tareen. He unsuccessfully contested the position of Speaker of the National Assembly, and currently serves as Chief Whip of PTI&#8217;s parliamentary party in the National Assembly.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malik Amir Dogar is a Pakistani politician from Multan, former Mayor of Multan, and current member of the National Assembly serving as PTI&#8217;s Chief Whip.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[84,58,62,64],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saraiki-politicians","tag-amir-dogar","tag-multan","tag-pti","tag-saraiki-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}