Basma Riaz Choudhry

Basma Riaz Choudhry also spelt Baasima (Urdu: بسمہ ریاض چوہدری) is a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) of Punjab. She is the daughter of Chaudhry Riaz Asghar, (brother-in-law of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain). The first time she was elected as an MPA was in the by-election in 2005. She returned to Punjab Assembly in the 2013 and 2018 general elections on the seats reserved for women.

She took part in the 2008 general elections from the PP-117 constituency (Mandi Bahuddin-II) as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) for the second time, but was defeated by the PPPP candidate Asif Bashir Bhagat.

Chaudhry was born on March 5, 1977, in Chicago. She obtained a B.Sc. in Management Marketing in 1998, and obtained her Master of Computer Science from DePaul University in Chicago in 2001. She is the niece of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain.