Asma Arbab Alamgir | |
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عاصمہ ارباب عالمگیر | |
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 2008–2013 | |
Constituency | Reserved seat for women |
Personal details | |
Born | 9 July 1965 |
Nationality | Pakistani |
Political party | Pakistan People's Party |
Spouse | Arbab Alamgir Khan |
Asma Arbab Alamgir (Urdu: عاصمہ ارباب عالمگیر; born 9 July 1965) is a Pakistani politician who served as member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
Alamgir was born on 9 July 1965.[1] She completed her graduation in Law and Economics.[2]
She is the wife of Arbab Alamgir Khan.[3][4]
Alamgir was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on a seat reserved for women from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the 2008 Pakistani general election.[3][4]
In February 2010, she was made president of the women wing of Pakistan Peoples Party while she was working as provincial coordinator of PPP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[4] In April 2010, she was appointed as Advisor to the Federal Minister of States and Frontier Regions.[2]
She ran for the National Assembly as a candidate of the PPP from NA-27 Peshawar-I in the 2018 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful. She received 24,002 votes and was defeated by Noor Alam Khan, a candidate of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).[5]
On 18 November 2023, she quit the PPP along with Arbab Alamgir Khan, her husband, citing dissatisfaction with the party's leadership and internal conflicts.[6]
On 13 May 2024, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) suspended the membership of Alamgir as a member of the National Assembly.[7] This action followed a Supreme Court of Pakistan decision to suspend the verdict of the Peshawar High Court, which had denied the allocation of a reserved seat to the PTI-Sunni Ittehad Council bloc.[8]