Shazia Abid is a Pakistani politician who is an in incumbent member of the

Provincial Assembly of the Punjab The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani provinces, Pakistani province of Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, which is located in Lahore, the provincial capital. It was established under ...

since 10 February 2024. Previously she had been a member of the

from August 2018 till January 2023.

Political career

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 ran for the seat 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 ...

as a candidate of

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded ...

(PPP) from Constituency NA-193 (Rajanpur-I) but was unsuccessful. She received 27,170 votes and lost the seat to

Jaffar Khan Leghari Muhammad Jaffar Khan Leghari (; 23 June 1945 – 31 December 2022) was a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, since August 2018 until his death in December 2022. Previously, he was a member of the National ...

. Following the election, she was elected to the

as a candidate of PPP on a reserved seat for women. 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 ...

, she secured a seat again in the

through a reserved quota for women as a candidate of Pakistan People's Party (PPP).

References

Living people Punjab MPAs 2018–2023 Pakistan People's Party MPAs (Punjab) Year of birth missing (living people) Women members of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab 21st-century Pakistani women politicians Punjab MPAs 2024–2029 {{PunjabPK-MPA-stub