Dr. Nausheen Hamid (; born 19 February 1961) is a

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politician and social activist who served as a member of the

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from August 2018 to January 2023. From September 2018 to April 2022, she served as the Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination. Previously, she was a member of the

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(W-356), from 2013 to 2018 (16th Assembly). She served as a member of the Syndicate Board of

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, during this tenure. She currently serves as the president of the Central Working Committee for Insaf Women Wing of the

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since 2020, having previously served as regional organizer of the party from 2010 to 2012 and central vice president of the Women's Wing from 2012 to 2013.

Early life and education

Hamid was born on 19 February 1961, in

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and spent her early life in

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. Her father, Gulzar Ahmad Qureshi, was a civil servant and served as a Commissioner of Income Tax in the

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. She received her primary education at Sacred Heart School in Karachi, graduating in 1971. She completed her secondary education at Mama Parsi Girls' Secondary School, Alumni of 1976. She attended high school at St Joseph's Convent School. She earned the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery ''(

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)'' with distinction in BioChemistry from

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in 1986. She served as a demonstrator in Fatima Jinnah Medical College, from 1989 to 1990 and later as Medical Officer in

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. From 2006 to 2015, she was General Secretary of the Lahore Chapter of the

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Political background

Hamid belongs to a well-known political family of Lahore, Pakistan. Her father-in-law, Mian Miraj Din (1927-2005), Senior Vice President of PML

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, was elected a Member of the Provincial Assembly of

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from 1962 to 1965 (Parliamentary Secretary for Basic Democracies & Local Government) and 1965 to 1969 (Parliamentary Secretary for Services & General Administration and Home, Labour and Jails). He remained a Member member of the Cial Assembly of the Punjab from 1993 to 1996 and 1997 to 1999 and functioned as Minister for Excise and taxation department, Punjab (Pakistan). Her husband Mian Hamid Miraj, served as the Deputy Mayor of Lahore from 1993 to 1996. He contested the 2010 by-election from NA-123 after

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vacated the seat, on the ticket of

(PTI). He was elected as Senior Vice President of Punjab,

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, in the 2013 intra-party elections. Ahsan Rashid (1944-2014), a well-known Pakistani businessman, politician, and philanthropist, was her first cousin. He was among the founding members of PTI and a close aide of

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. He served as President of

Political career

She joined

as her first political party in 2009 and served as Regional Organiser in the Women's Wing from 2010 to 2012. In May 2013, she was elected to the

as a candidate of

(PTI) on a reserved seat for women in the

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. She was nominated as vice president of the Central Women Wing

on 3 August 2014, while representing the party in the Punjab Assembly on opposition benches. She was elected to the

as a candidate of

(PTI) on a seat reserved for women from

in the

2018 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 25 July 2018 to elect the members of the 15th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. The three major parties were Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), led by Imran Khan, the Pakistan Muslim ...

. On 27 September 2018, Prime Minister

appointed her as Federal Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination. She was notified on 4 February 2020 as the current President of the Central Working Committee for Insaf Women's Wing

and takenthe oath on 14 February 2020.

References

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