Kanwal Shauzab

Kanwal Shauzab (Urdu: کنول شوزب) is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018.

Kanwal Shauzab
کنول شوزب
Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives
Assumed office
7 September 2018
Prime MinisterImran Khan
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
Assumed office
13 August 2018
ConstituencyReserved seat for women
Personal details
NationalityPakistani
Political partyPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Early life and education

She was born to a Pakistan Army officer and is from South Punjab.[1]

She holds a Masters 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

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]

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.[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]

See also

References
  1. Shah, Benazir (2018-02-27). "Meet Kanwal Shauzab, the only woman running for the Senate's general seat". Geo News. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  2. "Ministry of Planning,Development & Reform". www.pc.gov.pk.
  3. "List of MNAs elected on reserved seats for women, minorities". Dawn. 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  4. Rehman, Shoaib ur (8 September 2018). "PM appoints Parliamentary Secretaries for Law and Justice; Planning, Development and Reforms". Business Recorder. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  5. "PTI's female MNAs mount protest outside parliament". Business Recorder. 2022-06-10. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  6. "PTI MNA in the midst of a scandal". The Pakistan Daily. 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  7. "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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