Uzma Kardar | |
Office: | Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab |
Term Start: | 15 August 2018 |
Term End: | 21 May 2022 |
Constituency: | Reserved seat for women |
Birth Date: | 8 April 1956 |
Birth Place: | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Party: | Pakistan Muslim League (N) (2023-present) |
Otherparty: | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (2018-2020) |
Uzma Kardar (; born 8 April 1956) is a Pakistani politician who has been a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab since 2024.
Kardar was born on 8 April 1956 in Lahore, Pakistan.[1]
She did graduation from Kinnaird College for Women in 1980 and has a degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Kardar was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on a reserved seat for women in 2018 Pakistani general election.[2]
In July 2020, she was expelled from PTI for violation of party discipline[3] and was ordered to resign from the Punjab Assembly.[4] In May 2022, she was de-notified by the ECP as a member of the assembly due to her vote in favor of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) candidate, Hamza Shahbaz, in the chief minister election held on 16 April 2022.[5] [6]
In the 2024 Pakistani general election, she secured a seat in the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab through a reserved quota for women as a candidate of PML-N.[7]