Mehnaz Akbar Aziz 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 August 2018 till August 2023.

Early life and career

Mehnaz completed the Masters in Anthropology from the

Quaid-i-Azam University Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), founded as the University of Islamabad, is a public research university in Islamabad, Pakistan. Founded as the University of Islamabad in 1967, it was initially dedicated to postgraduate study, but later expande ...

and another Masters in Gender and Development Studies from the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

. She was elected to the

as a candidate of

Pakistan Muslim League (N) The Pakistan Muslim League (N) or (PML(N)) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right, Conservatism in Pakistan, conservative political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third-largest party in the Senate of Pakistan, Senate and the larges ...

(PML-N) from Constituency NA-77 (Narowal-I) in the

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. She received 106,366 votes and defeated Muhammad Tariq Anis. She and her husband,

Daniyal Aziz Daniyal Aziz Choudhry ( Punjabi, ; born 25 February 1965) is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for Privatisation, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1997 ...

, decided to run as

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in the

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, after they did not receive the PML(N)'s nominations for any seat.

References

Living people Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 Year of birth missing (living people) Quaid-i-Azam University alumni Alumni of the University of Sussex Women members of the National Assembly of Pakistan 21st-century Pakistani women politicians {{MuslimN-MNA-stub