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Sumera Shams
Pakistani politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sumera Shams is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from August 2018 till January 2023.
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Early life
Her younger sister Noorena Shams has represented Pakistan in international squash.[1]
Political career
Shams was elected as the member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on a ticket of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf from Lower Dir District in the provincial election held in July 2018.[2]
She is the youngest person to be elected as a Member of the Provincial Assembly. She was also one of the first women to cast a vote in Lower Dir.[3][4]
Previously she served as a district councillor in Lower Dir in 2015.[5]
Shams was named a 2022 Politician of the Year by One Young World, receiving her award in Manchester, England, in September 2022 alongside four other young politicians from around the world.[6]
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