2008 Elections
It is believed that Hashmi was personally asked by party chairman Nawaz Sharif to contest from Rawalpindi for the National Assembly seat, where Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed of the PML was undefeated since 1988. Makhdoom Javed Hashmi as a result won three National Assembly seats, one from Rawalpindi, one from Punjab Capital Lahore and one from his hometown Multan which where all Muslims League's strongholds. Hashmi beat PML-Q's political stalwart Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed in Rawalpindi, the same Sheikh who would later on be defeated by two PML-N candidates, Hanif Abbasi and Malik Shakeel Awan. Hashmi's that time group the PML-N dominated the national and provincial assembly in Punjab. They finished second behind the PPP and made a coalition with its one time fierce rivals.
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