She is the president of Women Democratic Front (WDF),[1] the deputy general-secretary of the Awami Workers Party (AWP),[2] and a leading member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM).
During her time with the CPP, she also established the provincial front of the Democratic Women's Association (DeWA) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then known as the North-West Frontier Province).
[13] Through her political ideologies and organizations, AWP and WDF, she aims to provide aid to the ignored societies of Pakistan by unifying their struggles.
[17][3] Her electoral campaign included the vision to ensure katchi abadis (informal settlements) get official land titles and to get water for Islamabad.
Their girls suffer a lot of sexual abuse at these big houses and it goes unreported.”[4] Shahjahan is involved in building a socialist feminist movement, from the platform of the Women Democratic Front.
[22] Shahjahan also took part in organizing Aurat Azadi March 2020 in Islamabad despite facing threats from the right wing parties.
On 27 January, Shahjahan visited Khaisor along with five other female PTM activists, Gulalai Ismail, Bushra Gohar, Jamila Gilani, Sanna Ejaz and Nargis Afsheen Khattak, to express solidarity with Hayat's mother and to also interview the local women about other incidents of sexual harassment.
[42][43] Shahjahan said, "[dozens of] women came out of their homes when we visited them, pleaded and cried, and asked us to help them bring their missing sons back.
Gulalai Ismail said that due to the bombing of their homes by the armed forces, "the mental health of women from the tribal areas has deteriorated so much that they cannot endure another day of war.”[44] On 21 April 2018, a night before the PTM public gathering in Lahore, the police arrested Shahjahan along with several other leading activists, including AWP president Fanoos Gujjar and PTM leader Ali Wazir.
[45][46] The arrests were criticized by the public and notable politicians, including Maryam Nawaz, Pervaiz Rashid, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
The protesters appealed to the Islamabad High Court where they were granted bail by chief justice Athar Minallah on 3 February.
[11] In 2018, she launched her own feminist-socialist magazine named Nariwad, from the platform of WDF, that highlights the importance of rights of women facing oppression and injustice.