PICTURES: Pakistan’s First Hindu MP Celebrates After Victory In Election

They also have reserved seats in the Senate, national and provincial assemblies.

Non-Muslims were declared eligible to vote and contest on general seats in 2002 under an amendment in the Legal Framework Order introduced by then president Pervez Musharraf.

He has served as the chairperson of the Sindh Assembly's Standing Committee on Food and remained a member of the Standing Committee on Law and Parliamentary Affairs and Human Rights, Standing Committee on Minorities Affairs, Standing Committee on Energy and Standing Committee on Transport and Mass Transit during the last government's tenure.

Malani, who is a Hindu, had contested and won the NA-222 (Tharparkar-II) seat where he held his ground against 14 candidates representing the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan and several independent candidates.

After his victory, Mahesh Kumar Malani and family was seen ceebrating at home. He won the seat since 16 years after non-Muslims got the right to vote and contest on general seats in the country.

In 2013, Malani was also the first non-Muslim lawmaker to win a general seat in the Sindh Assembly, PS-61 (Tharparkar-III).