Kanwal Shauzab

Kanwal Shauzab
کنول شوزب
Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives
In office
7 September 2018 – 10 April 2022
Prime MinisterImran Khan
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
13 August 2018 – 10 April 2022
ConstituencyReserved seat for women
President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Women Wing
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 2022
Personal details
BornBahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
Political partyPTI (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. She joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1997 and is currently the party’s women wing president.

Early life and education

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

She joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1997.[1]

She ran for the Senate of Pakistan 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 resigned from the National Assembly seat along with all PTI members following the No-confidence motion against Imran Khan.[5] She was appointed as the President of PTI’s Women Wing in May 2022 by Imran Khan.[6]

In February 2024, she contested the general election as a PTI backed independent candidate from NA-166 Bahawalpur-III but lost to Makhdoom Syed Sami ul Hassan Gillani of the PML-N. She was a PTI candidate for reserved seats allocation for women following the Reserved seats case.[7]

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.[8]

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.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  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. ^ Admin (2022-05-04). "Kanwal Shauzab President Women Wing PTI & Women of PTI – Tazeen Akhtar". Retrieved 2024-11-12.
  7. ^ "PTI finalises nominees for women's reserved seats in Punjab". The Nation. 2024-07-23. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
  8. ^ "PTI MNA in the midst of a scandal". The Pakistan Daily. 2020-09-30. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  9. ^ "Court approves plea to lodge case against PTI's Kanwal Shauzab for torturing citizen". Dunya News. 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2022-11-15.