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Begum Ishrat Ashraf

Pakistani politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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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]

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