Marriyum Aurangzeb


Marriyum Aurangzeb is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. Previously, she was a member of the National Assembly from June 2013 to May 2018.
She served as Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, in Abbasi cabinet from April 2018 to May 2018 and served as Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting from October 2016 to July 2017 in the third Sharif ministry and from August 2017 to April 2018 in the Abbasi ministry. She was educated at the Federal Government College, Islamabad and Quaid-e-Azam University and later attended the King's College London in the United Kingdom. Prior to entering politics, she worked as a development practitioner with the WWF.

Early life and education

Aurangzeb was born to Tahira Aurangzeb.
Aurangzeb did her graduation from the Federal Government College in Islamabad and went to receive a M.A in economics from the Quaid-e-Azam University. She later moved to London, where she received a master's degree from the King's College London in environmental and development policy.
Prior to entering politics, Aurangzeb worked as the head of corporate relations at the WWF Pakistan. She also served as a board member of LEAD Pakistan in 2013.

Political career

Aurangzeb was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League on a reserved seats for women in 2013 general election.
Aurangzeb had worked with Maryam Nawaz and was a part of her team which oversaw the education sector. She had served as the Parliamentary Secretary for Interior, a member of Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Climate Change, and on Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage. She also served as Chief Organiser of PML-N's Youth Women Wing, Islamabad, and Rawalpindi. She specialises in strategic thinking and planning and development for environmental conservation, development and international agreements and Millennium Development Goals implementation.
In October 2016, she was inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and was appointed as the Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting. She was made in charge of the Ministry of Information after Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid was sacked for failing to stop a media report on a rift between the Government of Pakistan and the Pakistan Army. She had ceased to hold ministerial office in July 2017 when the federal cabinet was disbanded following the disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after Panama Papers case decision.
Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2017, she was inducted into the federal cabinet and was re-appointed as the Minister of State for Information. In April 2018, she was elevated as a federal minister and was appointed as Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting in the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Upon the dissolution of the National Assembly on the expiration of its term on 31 May 2018, Aurangzeb ceased to hold the office as Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting.
She was appointed as official spokesperson of PML-N on 2 June 2018.
She was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-N on a reserved seat for women from Punjab in 2018 Pakistani general election.