Shamas-un-Nisa Memon () is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...

, from August 2018 till August 2023. Previously she was a member of the National Assembly from August 2013 to May 2018.

Political career

Shamas-un-Nisa was elected as the member of the

as a candidate of

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded ...

(PPP) from Constituency NA-237 (Thatta-I) in by-election held in August 2013. She received 84,819 votes and defeated Syed Riaz Hussain Shah Sherazi, a candidate of

Pakistan Muslim League (N) The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ( ur, , translit=Pākistān Muslim Līg (Nūn) PML(N) or PML-N) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal conservative political party in Pakistan. Alongside the Pakistan Teh ...

(PML-N). The seat became vacant after

Sadiq Ali Memon Sadiq Ali Memon ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2013 to August 2013. He is a graduate of the Oklahoma State University Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰ� ...

who won it in May 2013 election was disqualified to continue in office because of dual nationality case. She was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PPP from Constituency NA-232 (Thatta) in

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

References

Living people Pakistan People's Party politicians Sindhi people Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018 Politicians from Sindh Women members of the National Assembly of Pakistan Year of birth missing (living people) Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023 21st-century Pakistani women politicians {{Pakistan-MNA-stub