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Asma Arbab Alamgir
Asma Arbab Alamgir ( ur, عاصمہ ارباب عالمگیر; born 9 July 1965) is a Pakistani politician who served as member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. Early life and education Alamgir was born on 9 July 1965. She completed her graduation in Law and Economics. She is the wife of Arbab Alamgir Khan. Political career Alamgir was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on a seat reserved for women from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the 2008 Pakistani general election. In February 2010, she was made president of the women wing of Pakistan Peoples Party while she was working as provincial coordinator of PPP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In April 2010, she was appointed as Advisor to the Federal Minister of States and Frontier Regions. She ran for the National Assembly as a candidate of the PPP from NA-27 Peshawar-I in the 2018 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful. She received 24,002 votes and was defeated by Noo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of Pakistan
The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which also comprises the Senate of Pakistan (upper house). The National Assembly and the Senate both convene at Parliament House in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The National Assembly is a democratically elected body consisting of a total of 342 members who are referred to as Members of the National Assembly (MNAs), of which 272 are directly elected members and 70 reserved seats for women and religious minorities from all over the country. A political party or a coalition must secure 172 seats to obtain and preserve a majority. Members are elected through the first-past-the-post system under universal adult suffrage, representing electoral districts known as National Assembly constituencies. According to the Constitution of Pakistan, constit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
