Yusuf Raza Gilani — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Yusuf Raza Gilani; used for entity facts only. It recounts his birth on 9 June 1952 at Multan to a Saraiki family of Sufi Sayyids, his studies in political journalism, his career in the Muslim League and then the Peoples Party, his ministries and speakership of the National Assembly (1993–1997), his imprisonment (2001–2006) and conviction and their reported political motivation, his premiership (2008–2012), his contempt-of-court conviction in April 2012 and disqualification in June 2012, and his chairmanship of the Senate since 2024. A category at its foot files him under 'Pakistani Sunni Muslims'.