Begum Ishrat Ashraf

Begum Ishrat Ashraf is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1985 and 2013.

Begum Ishrat Ashraf
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab
In office 15 August 2018 – 14 January 2023
Constituency	Reserved seat for women
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office 17 March 2008 – 16 March 2013
Constituency	Reserved seat for women
In office 16 November 2002 – 15 November 2007
Constituency	Reserved seat for women
In office 20 March 1985 – 29 May 1988
Constituency	Reserved seat for women
Personal details
Nationality	Pakistani
Political party	PMLN (2002-present)
Spouse	Chaudhry Jaffar Iqbal Gujjar[1]
Children	Zaib Jaffar (daughter) Chaudhry Muhammad Omar Jaffar (son)
Relatives	Zaka Ashraf (brother)

Family

Ashraf is married to Chaudhry Jaffar Iqbal Gujjar and has a daughter Zaib Jaffar and a son Chaudhry Muhammad Omar Jaffar.^[2] She is the sister of Zaka Ashraf.^[2]

Political career

She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan on a seat reserved for women from Punjab in the 1985 Pakistani general election.^[3]

She was re-elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) on a seat reserved for women from Punjab in the 2002 Pakistani general election.^[4][5] In February 2006, she was elected president of PML-N women wing.^[6] In June 2006, she became a member of the National Public Safety Commission.^[7]

In 2011, she was named among the MPs who had foreign accounts and assets outside Pakistan.^[8]

She was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N on a seat reserved for women from Punjab in the 2008 Pakistani general election.^[9]

She was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-N on a reserved seat for women in the 2018 Pakistani general election.^[10]