and international print and electronic media, including CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, National Public Radio of USA and many others. She has served as Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Punjab from women reserved seats for Pakistan Peoples Party(PPP) 2008 to 2012. She holds dual American nationality. She moved back to the USA in 2012, and now resides in New York. She is serving as Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics at NYU Langone Health System, New York, USA. She is section chief of Geriatrics at NYU Langone Health Main Campus, New York, USA. Dual nationality case On 4 June 2012, the Supreme Court of Pakistan admitted a petition by the registrar's office. The petition stated that Amna Buttar holds dual Pakistani and American nationality, and hence, according to Pakistan's constitution, she is not eligible to hold public office in Pakistan. Along with Amna Buttar, the petition included names of 13 other current members of National and Provincial assemblies in Pakistan. Controversy Amna Buttar recently criticized a Pakistani Beauty Pageant, Miss Pakistan World for being irrelevant to the problems faced by Pakistani women. "In Pakistan, we are trying to get basic rights for women: right to marry, right to divorce, equal opportunity for job and education, and issues like Miss Pakistan create problems for this movement...An average Pakistani young woman does not want to wear a bikini in public, and for her it is important to have equal opportunity and all focus should be on that, and not on a pageant where only the elite can participate." . References 1962 births Living people Pakistani emigrants to the United States Indiana University faculty Pakistan People's Party politicians Pakistani geriatricians Women geriatricians Pakistani science writers Politicians from Punjab, Pakistan Women members of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab Punjab MPAs 2008–2013 Politicians from Lahore American people of Punjabi descent University of Michigan School of Public Health alumni American physicians of Pakistani descent 21st-century Pakistani women politicians People with acquired American citizenship