Kanwal Shauzab ( ur, ) 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 to April 2022.

Early life and education

She was born to a Pakistan Army officer and is from South Punjab

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. She is currently fighting elections 2024 in NA 166

She holds a master's degree from the

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in English Literature and M.Phil from the Quaid-i-Azam University, which she completed in 2015.

Political career

She joined

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the thre ...

(PTI) in 1997. She also ran for Senate in 2018 on a PTI ticket but was unsuccessful. She was elected to the

as a candidate of PTI on a reserved seat for women from Punjab in the

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. On 7 September 2018, she was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Development, and Reforms. In April 2022, she also resigned from the National Assembly seat along with all PTI members after the No-confidence motion against Imran Khan was successful. In February 2024, she contested general election as a PTI backed independent candidate from NA-166 but lost to Syed Sami ul Hassan Gillani of PMLN.

Allegations of abuse of power and torture

In September 2020, a citizen of Islamabad Sector F-11/2 petitioned the Islamabad Sessions Court to request registration of a criminal complaint against Shauzab. The petition alleged that Shauzab used Capital Development Authority to landscape and clean up an area around Shauzab's newly-purchased house; and that on 30 September 2020, she trespassed on private property to torture a 67-year-old neighbor. Additional Session Judge Syed Faizan Haider approved the petition on 19 January 2021, and ordered that the appropriate police

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be registered against the PTI Member National Assembly (MNA) according to the law.

External links

National Assembly profile

References

Living people Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNAs Quaid-i-Azam University alumni Women members of the National Assembly of Pakistan 21st-century Pakistani women politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Pakistan-MNA-stub

Early life and education

Political career

Allegations of abuse of power and torture

External links

See also

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