Sumaira quits as Punjab PMLN VP

LAHORE: The PMLN faced a setback before the general elections as its Punjab Vice President (VP) Sumaira Malik resigned on Monday.

Party sources said she was refused party ticket for the reserved seats of women after which she submitted her resignation to PMLN Punjab President Rana Sanaullah Khan. Sumaira is a senior politician from Khushab. In her resignation, she just wrote “I hereby resign from the post of PMLN Punjab vice president.”

She had joined the PMLN as Punjab vice president in 2022. She has been a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2013. She was first elected from NA-69 (Khushab-I) as a candidate of the National Alliance in the 2002 general elections. In September 2004, she was inducted into the federal cabinet of then prime minister Shaukat Aziz and appointed federal minister for Tourism. She made it to the National Assembly from the same constituency in the 2008 polls. In 2013, she contested elections from the PMLN platform and was elected to the National Assembly.