In a setback for Nawaz Sharif’s camp ahead of the elections, Sumaira Malik has resigned from the Pakistan Muslim League (N) Punjab Vice President post as she bids adieu to the party.
The seasoned politician from Khushab sent the resignation letter to Rana Sana Ullah. “I hereby resign from the post of PML-N Punjab Vice President,” she said in her resignation letter, a copy of which is available with Pakistan Observer.
Sumaira Malik joined PML-N as the vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Punjab chapter in 2022.
Malik, 60, had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to October 2013. She was first elected to the lower house of the parliament from Constituency NA-69 (Khushab-I) as a candidate of the National Alliance in the 2002 general election.
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 after the 2008 polls.
In 2013, she contested elections from the PML-N platform and was elected to the National Assembly.
