He ran for the seat of National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency NA-66 (Sargodha-III) in 2008 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 65,020 votes and lost the seat to Tasneem Ahmed Qureshi. In the same election, he ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as an independent candidate from Constituency PP-33 (Sargodha-VI) but was unsuccessful. He received 236 votes and lost the seat to Chaudhry Abdul Razzaq Dhillon.
