Marriyum Aurangzeb
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Marriyum Aurangzeb (Urdu: مریم اورنگزیب) is a Pakistani politician who currently serves as Senior Minister in the Government of Punjab, in office since March 2024.
Marriyum Aurangzeb | |
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Senior Minister of Punjab | |
Assumed office 6 March 2024 | |
Governor | Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman |
Chief Minister | Maryam Nawaz |
Preceded by | Mian Aslam Iqbal |
Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage | |
In office 18 April 2022 – 10 August 2023 | |
President | Arif Alvi |
Prime Minister | Shehbaz Sharif |
Preceded by | Fawad Chaudhry |
Succeeded by | Murtaza Solangi (as Minister of Information and Broadcasting) Jamal Shah (as Minister of National Heritage and Culture) |
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 13 August 2018 – 10 August 2023 | |
Constituency | Reserved seat for women |
In office 3 June 2013 – 31 May 2018 | |
Constituency | Reserved seat for women |
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting | |
In office 27 April 2018 – 31 May 2018 | |
President | Mamnoon Hussain |
Prime Minister | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi |
Succeeded by | Syed Ali Zafar |
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage | |
In office 4 August 2017 – 27 April 2018 | |
President | Mamnoon Hussain |
Prime Minister | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi |
In office 31 October 2016 – 28 July 2017 | |
President | Mamnoon Hussain |
Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
Personal details | |
Born | (1980-07-16) 16 July 1980 (age 43) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
Political party | Pakistan Muslim League (N) (2013-present) |
Parent | Tahira Aurangzeb (mother) |
Relatives | Najma Hameed (aunt)[1] |
Previously, she was a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan twice and served as the Federal Minister of Information & Broadcasting twice first in the Abbasi ministry from April 2018 to May 2018 and then in the Shehbaz Sharif ministry from April 2022 to August 2023. She also served as Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, twice, first from October 2016 to July 2017 in the third Sharif ministry and then from August 2017 to April 2018 in the Abbasi ministry.
She was elected as a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab on 23 February 2024 and was inducted into the provincial Punjab cabinet of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz as Senior Minister with various portfolio.