Farahnaz Ispahani | |
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Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 2008–2012 | |
Constituency | Reserved seat for women |
Personal details | |
Born | Karachi, Pakistan [1] |
Nationality | Pakistani, American |
Spouse | Husain Haqqani |
Parent(s) | Mirza Mohamed Ispahani (father) Akhtar Ispahani (mother) |
Relatives | Ispahani family |
Farahnaz Ispahani ( Urdu: فرح ناز اصفہانی) is a Pakistani-American writer and former politician who served as member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 2008 and 2012. She is a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute and a member of the Anti-Defamation League Task Force on Middle East Minorities in Washington, D.C. [2] [3]
She is married to Husain Haqqani [4] and is the granddaughter of Abul Hassan Isphani. [4] She attended Wellesley College.
As a journalist, she has worked with ABC News, CNN and MSNBC. [5]
She is a writer and authored Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan's Religious Minorities. [5]
In 2012, Ispahani was named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy. [5] [6] She was also named as Top 100 Women Who Matter the same year by Newsweek Pakistan. [5] [7]
From 2013 to 2014, she served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. [5]
She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party on a seat reserved for women from Sindh in the 2008 Pakistani general election. [8] [9] During her tenure as Member of the National Assembly, she served as media advisor to President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari [10] from 2008 until 2012 [11] [12] when her National Assembly membership was terminated on the basis of holding dual nationality. [9]
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