Farzana Raja | |
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Chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme | |
In office 2008–2013 | |
Prime Minister | Yousaf Raza Gillani Raja Pervez Ashraf |
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 2008–2013 | |
Constituency | Reserved seat for women |
Personal details | |
Born | Gujrat,Punjab,Pakistan | 2 January 1970
Political party | Pakistan Peoples Party |
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She was born on 2 January 1970. [1] [2] She received her early education from Government High School in Chaklala,Rawalpindi and completed her college education from Viqar-u-Nisa College in Rawalpindi before obtaining a bachelor's degree from Punjab University in 1989. She has completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Humanitarian Action and Peace building from United Nations Institute of research/Oxford Brooks University UK [1] [2]
She was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party on a reserved seat for women in the 2002 Pakistani general election. [1] [2]
She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party on a reserved seat for women from Punjab in the 2008 Pakistani general election. [1] [3]
She became chairwoman of the Benazir Income Support Programme in 2008. [4] [5]
In 2012,she was inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani without portfolio [6] and was give the status of a federal minister. [1] She was retained in the federal cabinet of incoming Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf. [1] [7]