[1] The pageant was originally launched in 2002 by Sonia Ahmed[2] under the name of Miss Canada Pakistan.
[26] On May 31, 2023, one of the first Pakistani girl of Bangladeshi[27] descent, Dr. Kapotaqkhy Chanchala was crowned Miss Pakistan Universal[28] 2023.
[32] Mrs. Pakistan World (Urdu: مسز پاکستان ورلڈ ) is a beauty pageant hosted in Toronto for married women of Pakistani descent.
Saiyma Haroon, Mrs. Pakistan World 2012 was the first Pakistani married woman to win from Norway.
Nida Khan was the first married woman at age 26 to be crowned in Lahore, Pakistan.
In January 2022, Sonia Ahmed began the first pageant on Pakistani[78] soil in Lahore, Pakistan.
This was initiated after the crowning of Areej Chaudhary in August 2020 and the successful launch of the Miss Trans Pakistan pageant on 25 May 2021.
In 2018, Anzhelika Tahir became the first Pakistani beauty queen to represent Pakistan in Miss Supranational.
An average Pakistani young woman does not want to wear a bikini[139] 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.
"[9] Sonia Ahmed, the president of Miss Pakistan World, defended the event as a movement for self-expression, saying that the participants have the freedom to do as they wish.
[140] In 2006, Culture Ministry official Abdul Hafeez Chaudhry questioned the wearing[141] of bikinis[142] to represent Pakistan.