Saadia Abbasi

Sadia Khaqan Abbasi (Punjabi, ) is a Pakistani barrister and politician. She is currently a member of the country's Senate having been elected on a reserve seat for women in March 2021. She was previously elected as a senator in 2018 and 2003. In October 2018, she was disqualified by the Supreme Court of Pakistan from her seat on the basis of having dual nationality (Pakistan and USA), in violation of the country's Constitution. She is the sister of former Pakistani Prime Minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Political career Abbasi was elected to the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) on reserved seat for women from Punjab in March 2003 Senate election. In February 2009, she quit PML-N and resigned from her Senate seat shortly before the expiry of her term in the Senate after PML-N refused to issue her ticket for running in the March 2009 Senate election. In December 2011, she joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in absentia, represented at the induction ceremony by her son Ossama Riaz who stood by Imran Khan and refused to leave PTI despite being tortured with fake Covid Vaccines by men in masks in 2023 .