Andleeb Abbas | |
Office: | Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs |
Primeminister: | Imran Khan |
Term Start: | 27 September 2018 |
Term End: | 10 April 2022 |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan |
Term Start1: | 13 August 2018 |
Term End1: | 11 August 2023 |
Constituency1: | Reserved seat for women |
Party: | IPP (2023-present) |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Spouse: | Nasir Abbas |
Children: | 1 Zainab Abbas (daughter) |
Term End: | 10 April 2022 |
Term End1: | 20 January 2023 |
Otherparty: | PTI (2018-2023) |
Andleeb Abbas is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till January 2023.
She ran for the seat of the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 2018 Pakistani Senate election[1] but was unsuccessful. She received 46 votes and lost the seat to Nuzhat Sadiq.[2]
She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of PTI on a reserved seat for women from Punjab in 2018 Pakistani general election.[3]
On 27 September 2018, Prime Minister Imran Khan appointed her as Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs.[4]
Andleeb's husband Nasir Abbas is a former first-class cricketer who played for Faisalabad and Hafizabad as a bowler. They have a daughter, Zainab Abbas, who is a television sports presenter.[5]