The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued a notification of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) nominated female leaders on reserved seats Sharmila Farooqui and Sahar Kamran.
Karachi: Sharmila Farooqi Sehar Kamran becomes NA members on PPP reserved seats. Both now became elected members of the National Assembly on the reserved seat from PPP.
PPP Shazia Murri and Nafisa Shah resigned from the reserved seat after winning the general elections.
The notification of the successful independent candidate Khizr Hussain Mazari from the Punjab Assembly seat PP 297 has also been issued.
Who is Sharmila Farooqi
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Sharmila Farooqi (born January 25, 1978) is a politician from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan who served as an advisor to the Chief Minister of Sindh from September 2008 till January 31, 2011. Sharmila regularly appears on TV political news/talk/public affairs News channels to defend her party and government from corruption allegations.She is the maternal granddaughter of N M Uqaili, former Pakistan Minister of Finance and daughter of Usman Farooqi, who was a bureaucrat and a former Chairman of Pakistan Steel Mill. Farooqi is the niece of Salman Farooqi, a well-known confidante of former President Asif Ali Zardari. Farooqi earned her Master of Business Administration from the Adamson Institute of Business Administration and Technology, Karachi and a Master of Laws degree. Sharmila Farooqi is engaged to Hasham Riaz Sheikh, a former Wall Street investment banker and presently an advisor to the former President Asif Ali Zardari. Sharmila married Hasham Riaz Sheikh on March 5, 2015. Prior joining politics as a Pakistan Peoples Party Leader, Sharmila has also worked for showbiz. She appeared in a Drama serial “Panchwa Mausam” along with Aijaz Aslam, Talat Hussain, Abdullah Kadwani and Gulab Chandio.
