Seemi Aizdi
Seemi Ezdi | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Senate of Pakistan | |
| In office December 2018 – March 2024 | |
| President | Arif Alvi |
| Prime Minister | Imran Khan |
| Constituency | Punjab, Pakistan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1950 (age 75–76) Comilla, East Bengal, Pakistan |
| Other political affiliations | PTI (2018-2023) |
| Relatives | Jahangir Tareen (brother)[1] |
Seemi Aizdi is a Pakistani politician who was the member of the Senate of Pakistan from December 2018 to March 2024.
Early life
[edit | edit source]She was born in Comilla, which at the time was part of East Bengal in Pakistan, but is now situated in Bangladesh.[2][3][4][5]
Political career
[edit | edit source]In May 2018, she paid Rs.100,000 to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as an application fee for a ticket to contest the 2018 Pakistani general election from one of the national assembly constituencies of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT).[6] However, she was not allotted a ticket for any of the three ICT constituencies.[7][8][9] Rather, she was accommodated in upcoming by-elections for the Senate of Pakistan and was elected senator from Punjab province on a reserved seat for women representing PTI. The election was held on 15 November 2018 between her and Saira Afzal Tarar of Pakistan Muslim League (N).[10] PTI was criticized for promoting nepotism for her being sister of then PTI stalwart Jahangir Tareen.[11] She served as a senator from December 2018 to March 2024.[12][13] While serving as a senator, she chaired the committee on climate change. In this role, she advocated for making the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor more environmentally sustainable.[14]
In March 2022, while her brother Jahangir Tareen was backing a no-confidence motion against Imran Khan, she publicly expressed her support for Khan.[15]
She was among the PTI senators who proposed a resolution denouncing the May 9 riots and advocating for severe measures against those responsible for the violent acts on that day.[16]
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