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Parliamentary Secretary Planning Development & Special Initiatives

PROFILE:

Mrs. Kanwal Shauzab, is the Member of National Assembly, Pakistan since 2018 and is serving as the Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Planning Development and Special Initiatives. She is also elected as the Secretary General for the Young Parliamentarians Forum YPF, after contesting & winning Elections in December, 2021.

She is the Convener of sub group for SDG 6, Water & Sanitation with the Federal Parliamentary Task Force on SDGs . She presented the First Voluntary National Review Report VNR on Sustainable Development Goals SDGs in United National UN in July, 2019, represented Pakistan in Ministerial segment on Energy In the United Nations UN in May, 2019.

In Addition to being the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry, she is also serving as:

  • 1. Member Standing Committee on Defense
  • 2. Member Standing committee on Information and Technology
  • 3. Member Standing committee on Information and Broadcasting
  • 4. Member Parliamentary Committee on Erstwhile Fata.
  • EDUCATION:

    Kanwal Shauzab holds M.Phil degree from Quaid-e-Azam University (2012-2015). The thesis presented by her was on "Caste based Discrimination against Women in Urban Islamabad (Pakistan)". She did masters in English Literature and Linguistics from National University of Modern Languages. (2010-2012).

    She has taken various courses on Critical Analysis of Social Theory, Investigating Democracy in Theory and Practice, Comparative Politics in South Asia, Research Methodology, Economic History of Pakistan, Distribution, Management and Politics of Water Resources of Pakistan etc. She also conducted a research for one year (2013-2014) funded by Hans Siedel Foundation (German) and written a research paper on Intersectionality based discrimination against Christian women in Islamabad Pakistan. She also visited Germany in 2014 and 2013 sponsored by DAAD under scholarship program of Political participation, Governance and public Policy in Europe and South Asia.

    SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES:

    Kanwal Shauzab is a social scientist, a researcher, Public Policy & Media Expert and a politician. She has served as Media coordinator YPF after contesting and wining the elections in 2019, contested Senate elections as PTI candidate on General seat from Islamabad in March 2018.

    In addition; she has served as President Women Wing North Punjab in 2018, as President Female Youth Wing PTI North Punjab, Additional Secretary Information North Punjab from 2017 -2018 and has also worked as Secretary Information Women Wing Islamabad since 2016 -2017

    She also worked as Media Coordinator- PTI in 2011-2013, served the party as General Secretary for PTI women wing Islamabad Region 2013-2014. As a social activist, she has worked in the Christian colonies like French colony F7, Hundred quarters F6, and Sector G7 create awareness among women how to gain economic freedom and explore more options to work respectably, installed motor and water pumps to overcome shortages of clean drinking water in Meherabadi and in Sector G7,G8.

    She has taken trainings from IRI and became a master political trainer. Now she utilizes training skills voluntarily to conduct training workshops on different tiers of party (from Union Council to provincial) encouraging women to participate in politics and also to contest in party /general elections.