Ayesha Rajab Ali is a Pakistani politician who had 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 ...

from August 2018 till August 2023.

Political career

Ayeshaa Rajab Ali was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of

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 ...

(PML-N) on a reserved seat for women from Punjab in

2018 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on Wednesday, 25 July 2018 to elect the members of 15th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. The three major parties Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by Imran Khan, the Pakistan Muslim ...

. She is the wife of late

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(24 September 1969 – 13 May 2018), who was also a Pakistani politician. After not receiving the PML(N)'s nomination for any seat in the

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, she decided to contest as an

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from NA-97 Faisalabad-III. On 3 February 2024, she joined the

Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded by Jahangir Tareen on 8 June 2023. It was registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on 5 October 2023. History The pre-existing tension ...

(IPP). Consequently, she withdrew from the election and announced her support for

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, the IPP candidate.

References

Living people Pakistan Muslim League (N) MNAs Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Women members of the National Assembly of Pakistan Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Pakistani women politicians {{Pakistan-MNA-stub