Sumaira Malik (Politician)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sumaira Malik

• Sumaira Malik is a Pakistani politician who was appointed as the Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from the NA-69 (Khushab-I) Constituency consecutively three times in 2002, 2008, and 2013 respectively.

• Sumaira Malik belongs to the Qutab-shahi Awan family of Pakistan.

• During her tenure in Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz’s government in 2002, Sumaira was given the charge of the Ministry of Women Development and the Ministry of Youth Affairs.

• Sumaira’s sister, Ayla Malik, was a Member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf from 2011 to 2017. Ayla served as a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan on a reserved seat for women from 2002 to 2007.

• Sumaira’s other sister is married to one of the sons of her maternal uncle, Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari.

• Many of Sumaira’s family members were prominent political leaders in Pakistan. Her grandfather, Malik Amir Mohammad Khan, the Nawab of Kalabagh, served as the Governor of West Pakistan in the 1960s. Khan was infamous for his brutality in his heydays. On 26 November 1967, Malik Amir Mohammad Khan was killed by his son Asadullah Khan due to a property dispute in the family. ^[10]Dawn However, Sumaira’s father could not leave a great mark as a politician. Her maternal uncle, Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari, is the former President of Pakistan.

• As per Sumaira’s Twitter handle, she had completed PhD degree and therefore applied the prefix of Dr before her name. ^[11]Dr. Sumaira Malik – Twitter

• Sumaira served as the spokesperson of the Imran Khan’s political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

• Sumaira was the first elected candidate from the NA-69 (Khushab-I) Constituency to the National Assembly of Pakistan from the National Alliance party in the 2002 Pakistani general election. ^[12]Pakistani Observer

• Sumaira was invited as one of the chief guests at the first convocation of the University of Central Punjab (Bhawalpur) in March 2022.

• In December 2022, multiple old phone recordings between Imran Khan and Sumaira’s sister, Ayla Malik, surfaced online in which the duo were heard having an obscene conversation. On being asked about the same Ayla denied the news and said that it was not her voice in the audio. Later, Imran Khan’s political party Tehreek-e-Insaf also claimed that the audio tapes were falsified and fabricated. Sumaira addressed the audio tape as fake and tweeted in support of her sister Ayla Malik, which read,