Kanwal Shauzab
Kanwal Shauzab | |
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| کنول شوزب | |
| Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives | |
| In office 7 September 2018 – 10 April 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Imran Khan |
| Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
| In office 13 August 2018 – 10 April 2022 | |
| Constituency | Reserved seat for women |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Political party | PTI (1997-present) |
Kanwal Shauzab (Urdu: کنول شوزب) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 to April 2022.
Early life and education
[edit]She was born to a Pakistan Army officer and is from Ahmadpur East in South Punjab.[1]
She holds a master's degree from the National University of Modern Languages in English Literature and M.Phil from the Quaid-i-Azam University, which she completed in 2015.[2]
Political career
[edit]She joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1997.[1]
She also ran for Senate in 2018 on a PTI ticket but was unsuccessful.[1]
She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of PTI on a reserved seat for women from Punjab in the 2018 Pakistani general election.[3]
On 7 September 2018, she was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Development, and Reforms.[4]
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.[5]
In February 2024, she contested general election as a PTI backed independent candidate from NA-166 Bahawalpur-III but lost to Syed Sami ul Hassan Gillani of PMLN.
Allegations of abuse of power and torture
[edit]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.[6]
Additional Session Judge Syed Faizan Haider approved the petition on 19 January 2021, and ordered that the appropriate police FIR be registered against the PTI Member National Assembly (MNA) according to the law.[7]
External links
[edit]See also
[edit]- List of members of the 15th National Assembly of Pakistan
- List of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf elected members (2013–2018)
- No-confidence motion against Imran Khan
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Shah, Benazir (2018-02-27). "Meet Kanwal Shauzab, the only woman running for the Senate's general seat". Geo News. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
- ^ "Ministry of Planning,Development & Reform". www.pc.gov.pk.
- ^ "List of MNAs elected on reserved seats for women, minorities". Dawn. 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ^ Rehman, Shoaib ur (8 September 2018). "PM appoints Parliamentary Secretaries for Law and Justice; Planning, Development and Reforms". Business Recorder. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "PTI's female MNAs mount protest outside parliament". Business Recorder. 2022-06-10. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
- ^ "PTI MNA in the midst of a scandal". The Pakistan Daily. 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
- ^ "Court approves plea to lodge case against PTI's Kanwal Shauzab for torturing citizen". Dunya News. 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
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