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NA-48 Islamabad-III
Constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan

Region	Rawat Town, Ghauri Town and rural areas of Islamabad Capital Territory
Electorate	292,380 ^[1]
Current constituency
Created	2018
Party	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
Member(s)	Khurram Shehzad Nawaz
Created from	NA-52 Islamabad-I

NA-48 Islamabad-III (این اے-48، اسلام آباد-3) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.^[2]

Area

This constituency consists of mostly rural areas of Islamabad Capital Territory including the residential compartments alongside Islamabad Expressway running up to Rawat and ending at the borders of Rawalpindi. Bani Gala is split into this constituency and NA-53 (Islamabad-II). These areas were previously part of now-abolished constituency of NA-49 Islamabad-II before the delimitation of 2018.^[3]

On a more granular basis, following areas are included in this constituency:

Sihala
Rawat
Alipur and Farash
Jandala
Muhrian
Kuri
Pind Begwal
Maira Begwal CH
Tumair
Tarlai Kalan
Ghauri Town
Tarlai Khurd^[4]^[5]

Members of Parliament

2002–2018: NA-49 Islamabad-II

	Member	Party
2002	Nayyar Hussain Bukhari	PPP
2008	Tariq Fazal Chaudhry	PML-N
2013	Tariq Fazal Chaudhry	PML-N

2018–2023: NA-52 Islamabad-I

Election		Member	Party
	2018	Khurram Shehzad Nawaz	PTI

2024–present: NA-48 Islamabad-III

Election		Member	Party
	2024	Khurram Shehzad Nawaz	PML(N)

Election 2002

General elections were held on 10 October 2002. Nayyar Hussain Bukhari of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) won by 47,884 votes.^[6]

General election 2002: NA-49 Islamabad-II
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PPP	Syed Nayyer Hussain Bukhari	47,884	44.65
	Independent	Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar	30,016	27.99
	PML(N)	Dr. Tariq Fazal Ch.	16,832	15.70
	PTI	Rab Nawaz Ch.	7,540	7.03
	PAT	Raja Muhammad Yamin Abbasi	2,009	1.87
	Others	Others (five candidates)	2,960	2.76
Turnout			108,496	55.31
Total valid votes			107,241	98.84
Rejected ballots			1,255	1.16
Majority			17,868	16.66
Registered electors			196,177

Election 2008

The result of general election 2008 in this constituency is given below.

Result

Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhary succeeded in the election 2008 and became the member of National Assembly.^[7]

General election 2008: NA-49 Islamabad-II
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PML(N)	Tariq Fazal Chaudhry	45,482	33.54
	PPP	Syed Nayyer Hussain Bukhari	44,726	32.99
	PML(Q)	Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar	34,546	25.48
	Independent	Malik Tabarak Hussain	8,294	6.12
	Others	Others (seven candidates)	2,543	1.87
Turnout			136,574	56.23
Total valid votes			135,591	99.28
Rejected ballots			983	0.72
Majority			756	0.55
Registered electors			242,877
	PML(N) gain from PPP

Election 2013

General elections were held on 11 May 2013. Tariq Fazal Chudhary of PML-N easily defended his berth in the National Assembly and was hence re-elected.^[8]

General election 2013: NA-49 Islamabad-II
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PML(N)	Tariq Fazal Chaudhry	94,106	43.90
	PTI	Ch. Ilyas Meharban	57,383	26.77
	PPP	Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar	44,984	20.99
	Others	Others (twenty three candidates)	17,890	8.34
Turnout			215,770	64.56
Total valid votes			214,364	99.35
Rejected ballots			1,406	0.65
Majority			36,723	17.13
Registered electors			334,241
	PML(N) hold

Election 2018

General elections were held on 25 July 2018.

General election 2018: NA-52 Islamabad-I^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	PTI	Khurram Shehzad Nawaz	64,690	42.93
	PPP	Muhammad Afzal Khokhar	34,072	22.61
	PML(N)	Tariq Fazal Chaudhry	33,519	22.24
	TLP	Rizwan Ahmed	11,984	7.95
	Others	Others (five candidates)	3,897	2.59
Turnout			150,692	64.26
Rejected ballots			2,530	1.68
Majority			30,618	20.32
Registered electors			234,508
	PTI gain from PML(N)

Election 2024

General elections were held on 8 February 2024.^[10] Khurram Shehzad Nawaz won the election with 69,701 votes.

General election 2024: NA-48 Islamabad-III
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Khurram Shehzad Nawaz	69,701	38.37	N/A
	Independent	Muhammad Ali Bokhari^[a]	59,865	32.95	9.98
	Independent	Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar	18,573	10.22	N/A
	TLP	Azhar Mehmood	13,201	7.27	0.68
	Others	Others (thirty-two candidates)	20,324	11.19
Turnout			182,875	61.11	3.15
Rejected ballots			1,211	0.66
Majority			9,836	5.41
Registered electors			299,247
	Independent gain from PTI