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Sherry Rehman
Ms Sherry Rehman is a senior Pakistani politician, journalist,
parliamentarian and the member of the Pakistan Peoples Party. Born in Karachi,
she has studied art, history and politics at Smith College Massachusetts,
US; and at the University of Sussex, UK.
Sherry Rehman has continued a proficient journalist for twenty years. She has
served as Editor of Pakistan’s prestigious newsmagazine, Herald, for ten years.
She has wide undergo in both print and broadcast media. Her bold and creative
journalistic style obtained her ranking surrounded by the top journalists of the
country. She has as well anchored a television provide evidence on contemporary
affairs in 1999. Sherry Rehman typically enters for countrywide and
intercontinental newspapers and newsmagazine.
In March 2008, Sherry Rehman was raised re-elected Member of the National
Assembly as PPP candidate for the Sindh province on the include for reserved
seats for women. Previous to presently she was an MNA based on data from 2002 to
2007 and Central Information Secretary as far as President of Policy Planning of
the Pakistan Peoples Party. Her interests in the National Assembly list overseas
and security policy, women’s status and rights legislation, and media policies.
In the National Assembly, Rehman has served as Convener of the Parliamentary
Sub-Committee on Media and Public Diplomacy for Kashmir and Member of the
Special Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, and Foreign Relations Committee in
PPP. During her four decades in the parliament, Sherry Rehman moved a monkey of
payments connected to media freedom, women’s empowerment and human rights. She
is the architect of all the uni PPP charges tabled in the National Assembly:
Women Empowerment Bill, Anti-Honor Killings Bill, Domestic Violence Prevention
Bill, Affirmative Action Bill and Hudood Repeal Bill. She in addition moved two
Bills for the Media: the Freedom of Information Bill and the Press Act, that
prevents making an attempt journalists on making arrested underneath the 1999
Press Ordinance.
She was leader of Pakistan delegation at the Asian Parliamentarians’ Conference
in December 2004 for the Islamabad Declaration Committee. Earlier she has had
the privilege of representing Pakistan at the UN General Assembly session in
1994. She has too lectured at the School of Advanced International Studies at
John Hopkins University in November 2004.
She served as a member of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) based
on what i read in 1988-1998. She in addition went the committe which going the
PPP Manifesto for the 2008 elections.
In civil society, Sherry Rehman has continued an active proponent for the
provision of right entrance to quality of life and educational resources,
outstandingly for women and children according to the lower-income sections of
Pakistani society. She is the Chairman of the Lady Dufferin Foundation Trust,
the top non-profit provider of women and children’s subsidized health-care in
the province of Sindh.
Sherry Rehman’s current book “The Kashmiri Shawl: From Jamawar to Paisley”,
overly she co-authored through Ms Naheed Jafri, was published in 2006. The book
has carried on specific for R.L Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award for 2006, in the
US. Ms Rehman can acquire her award at the 11th Beinnial Symposium of the
Textile Society of America, in Hawai, in September 2008.
Sherry Rehman is the chiefly Pakistani to be recognized amongst an award for
independent journalism by the UK House of Lords in its Muslim World Awards
Ceremony in the year 2002.
Sherry Rehman is married to legendary banker Nadeem Hussain who is the President
and Chief Executive Officer of Tameer Microfinance Bank.
Sherry Rehman was sworn in as Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting
on Mar 31, 2008.
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