Firdous Ashiq Awan

Fridous Ashiq Awan, one of the Pakistan senior female politician born on January 11^th 1970 in Sialkot Punjab being a politician she is also well known for her social works during her educational years. After getting early education from Pakistan Dr Firdous moved to united states for Diploma in Hospital Management from South Atlantic University.

After completing her hospital management from United States Dr Awan came back to Pakistan and started her education in MBBS from Fatima Jinnah medical college after completion Firdous started her job in Ganga Ram Hospital Lahore.

Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan is also a social worker and had played a vital role in many social causes she also founded an organization “society for health and development” (SHADE) while she was working in the Ganga Ram Hospital Lahore.

Dr Firdous is married to a businessman Malik Amjad Awan and had two children, she started her political career in 2002 as she was elected as member for national assembly from PML(Q) on a reserved seat. She worked under the president ship of President General Pervez Musharraf later left the party and joined Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in 2007.

Firdous Ashiq Awan contested the general election 2008 from the constituency of NA-11 Sialkot II on PPP ticket and defeated a very strong candidate Chaudhry Ameer Hussain and appointed as the minister for population welfare later she was appointed as the information minister for Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).

Firdous recently joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 2017 she contested again in the general election 2018 and got successful in defeating his opponent.  Firdous is currently associated with the ruling party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and serving as the information minister in federal.