[5][6] She was also Pakistan's flag bearer at the opening ceremony along with the sports shooter Muhammad Khalil Akhtar.

[7][8] Shahzad graduated from the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi in 2018, with Economics and Mathematics as her subjects.

Her sister, Rabia Shahzad, is a weightlifter who has won several international medals for Pakistan.

[13][14][15][16] During 2020 Summer Olympics, Shahzad posted a video in which she was seen saying that while she has received praise for her achievements, there were some local badminton players who were jealous of her and acted like "Pathans".

[17][18] She received a lot of criticism for ridiculing her fellow players and by extension, an entire ethnicity.