{"id":896,"date":"2026-07-14T19:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/ghulam-bibi-bharwana\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:25:41","slug":"ghulam-bibi-bharwana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/saraiki-politicians\/ghulam-bibi-bharwana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghulam Bibi Bharwana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghulam Bibi Bharwana (born 5 May 1970) is a Pakistani politician from Jhang who was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan across four consecutive terms between 2002 and 2023. She is among a small number of women in Pakistan repeatedly elected to the National Assembly on a general, rather than reserved, seat.<\/p>\n<p>Bharwana holds a BA from Lahore College for Women and an LLB from the University of the Punjab. She was first elected to the National Assembly from NA-87 Jhang-II on a Pakistan Muslim League (Q) ticket in 2002 and served as Minister of State for Education. She was re-elected in 2008 on the same ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Bharwana was re-elected in 2013 on a Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ticket, later resigning from the National Assembly in December 2017 in protest alongside other PML-N lawmakers. In May 2018 she joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and was re-elected to the National Assembly from NA-115 Jhang-II later that year, serving until the assembly&#8217;s term ended in 2023.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghulam Bibi Bharwana is a Pakistani politician from Jhang, elected to the National Assembly across four consecutive terms on a general seat.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,87,64],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saraiki-politicians","tag-ghulam-bibi-bharwana","tag-jhang","tag-saraiki-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraikiculture.com\/skr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}