Nayyab Ali

Nayab has remained a teacher prior to her political career.[13]

Nayab has been advocating transgender rights from an early age.[14] She has worked for the welfare of transgender community in Pakistan and also started her own venture, the 'Khawaja Sira Community' in Okara, which offers a basic literacy and numeracy programme, vocational training, life skills education and driving classes for the transgender community.[15] [16] She has served as Chairperson, All Pakistan Transgender Election Network (APTEN). For the past decade, Nayab has been giving technical support to the government institutions[17] to improve the lives of her community and get them their basic human rights. She is the first transgender person in Pakistan to register her company with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).

After a historic bill passed in 2018, that granted the transgender community a right to obtain legal documents, right to vote and stand in election.[18][19] Nayab, along with 12 other transgender candidates became the first of their community to stand in the 2018 Pakistan elections.[20][21] She stood for the national assembly seat NA-142 in Okara in the 2018 elections on PTI's Ayesha Gulalai's seat[1][22] and was able to receive a total of 157 votes, which was more than many of her female counterparts.[23][24]

Nayab is also a member of the provincial voter committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan.[25] and also a part of the All Pakistan Transgender Election Network in Punjab.