Aneeqa Mehdi Bhatti is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the

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 al ...

since February 2024.

Political career

She was elected to the

in the

2024 Pakistani general election General elections are scheduled to be held in Pakistan on 8 February 2024 to elect the members of the 16th National Assembly. The detailed schedule was announced by Election Commission of Pakistan on 15 December 2023. The two major parties ar ...

from NA-67 Hafizabad as an independent candidate, defeating

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of the

Pakistan Muslim League (N) The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ( ur, , translit=Pākistān Muslim Līg (Nūn) PML(N) or PML-N) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal conservative political party in Pakistan. Alongside the Pakistan Teh ...

. She later joined the

Sunni Ittehad Council The Sunni Ittehad Council, formed in 2009, is an alliance of Islamic political and religious parties in Pakistan which represents followers of the Barelvi (Sufi) school of Sunni Islam. The current chairman of the main 'M' faction is Sayyid Ma ...

(SIC), along with all of the other PTI-affiliated independents.

Personal life

Her father Mehdi Hassan Bhatti is a former MNA and her brother Shaukat Ali Bhatti served as the

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and Youth Affairs in the government of Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi in Punjab.

References

{{reflist # # Pakistani MNAs 2024–2029