Malik Nawaz Awan is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly of Pakistan, also referred to as ''Aiwān-ē-Zairīñ'', is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, with the upper house being the Senate of Pakistan, Senate. As of 2023, the National Assem ...

from October 2018 till January 2023.

Political career

He served as the opposition leader in the

Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation The Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI; Urdu: بلدیہ عظمی اسلام آباد) is a municipal authority for the Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan. It was established under the ICT Local Government Act 2015. The Corporation is one ...

. Awan was elected to the

as a candidate of

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is a political party in Pakistan established in 1996 by cricketer and politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The party is led by Gohar Ali Khan since late 2023. ...

(PTI) from the Constituency

NA-53 (Islamabad-II) NA-47 Islamabad-II () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. Area The constituency mostly consists of urban areas of Islamabad in addition to Bhara Kahu. During the 2018 delimitation, this constituency took areas from two for ...

in the

2018 Pakistani by-elections By-elections are scheduled to be held in Pakistan on 14 October 2018 and 21 October 2018. These elections will be held on twelve constituencies for the National Assembly of Pakistan and twenty-seven constituencies belonging to four provincial ass ...

held on 14 October 2018. On 7 November, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister

Imran Khan Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi (born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician, philanthropist, and former cricketer who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. He was the founder of the political party Pak ...

and was appointed as Special Assistant to Prime Minister on affairs of Capital Development Authority.

References

Living people Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf politicians Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Imran Khan administration 1980 births {{PakistanTehreekeInsaf-MNA-stub