After Aseefa Bhutto Zardari won the by-election on NA-207 unopposed, the Zardaris now hold the record for having the most number of legislators from a political family in Pakistan.
With President Asif Ali Zardari’s daughter Aseefa’s election in the National Assembly (MNA) from Shaheed Benazirabad (former Nawabshah-I) constituency, the Zardari family has broken the record of the Sharif family as it now has the most number of members from the same family in the Pakistan’s parliamentary history, explains a report by Geo’s Maqsood Awan.
Asif Ali Zardari himself is the country’s president, his daughter Aseefa, son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and brother-in-law Munawar Ali Talpur are MNAs, while both sisters Faryal Talpur and Azra Pechuho are members of the provincial assembly in Sindh.
On the other hand, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s elder brother Mian Nawaz Sharif, and his son Hamza Shehbaz Sharif have been elected MNAs, while his niece Maryam Nawaz Sharif is the chief minister of Punjab. Meanwhile, members of the extended family, Bilal Yasin and Ishaq Dar are serving as Punjab Food Minister and Minster of Foreign Affairs respectively.
As a result, in terms of having the greatest number of immediate family members elected as MNAs or MPAs, the Zardari family stands first, while the Sharifs are the second.
