Kanwal Shauzab

Kanwal Shauzab is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 to April 2022.

Early life and education
She was born to a Pakistan Army officer and is from South Punjab Ahmadpur East. She is currently fighting elections 2024 in NA 166 Ahmadpur East

She holds a master's degree from the National University of Modern Languages in English Literature and M.Phil from the Quaid-i-Azam University, which she completed in 2015.

Political career
She joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1997.

She also ran for Senate in 2018 on a PTI ticket but was unsuccessful.

She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of PTI on a reserved seat for women from Punjab in the 2018 Pakistani general election.

On 7 September 2018, she was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Development, and Reforms.

In April 2022, she also resigned from the National Assembly seat along with all PTI members after the No-confidence motion against Imran Khan was successful.

In February 2024, she contested general election as a PTI backed independent candidate from NA-166 but lost to Syed Sami ul Hassan Gillani of PMLN.

Allegations of abuse of power and torture
In September 2020, a citizen of Islamabad Sector F-11/2 petitioned the Islamabad Sessions Court to request registration of a criminal complaint against Shauzab. The petition alleged that Shauzab used Capital Development Authority to landscape and clean up an area around Shauzab's newly-purchased house; and that on 30 September 2020, she trespassed on private property to torture a 67-year-old neighbor.

Additional Session Judge Syed Faizan Haider approved the petition on 19 January 2021, and ordered that the appropriate police FIR be registered against the PTI Member National Assembly (MNA) according to the law.