PinkyGul Heroines
Sherry Rehman is a Pakistani politician and former diplomat who has been the member of the Senate of Pakistan since 2015. She was the first woman Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from March 2018 to August 2018 and served as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2013. Her accomplishments over the years have carved out a place for Pakistani in the political sector not only within the country, but outside it top.
She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan for the first time as a candidate for PPP on a reserved seat for women in the 2002 Pakistani general election where she remained until 2007. During her tenure as Member of the National Assembly, she remained Central Information Secretary of PPP, President of Policy Planning for the PPP and remained a part of the party’s Foreign Relations Committee.
Rehman has also written, and received accolades for, multiple fields; in 2006, she received R.L Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award, for The Kashmiri Shawl. She has written for multiple local publications (having been a journalist with the Daily Star and the editor of the Herald), and for others, such as Foreign Policy. In 2002, she became first Pakistani to be recognised with an award for independent journalism by the UK House of Lords in its Muslim World Awards Ceremony. For her work in defending journalistic freedom, she received ‘The Freedom Award’ Pakistan by the Association of Television Journalists.
She has also received recognition for her contribution to diplomacy and politics; in 2013, she received the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s highest civilian honor by the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari. In 2009, she was given the title of “Democracy’s Hero” by the International Republican Institute.
PinkyGul Heroines
Sherry Rehman is a Pakistani politician and former diplomat who has been the member of the Senate of Pakistan since 2015. She was the first woman Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from March 2018 to August 2018 and served as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2013. Her accomplishments over the years have carved out a place for Pakistani in the political sector not only within the country, but outside it top.
She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan for the first time as a candidate for PPP on a reserved seat for women in the 2002 Pakistani general election where she remained until 2007. During her tenure as Member of the National Assembly, she remained Central Information Secretary of PPP, President of Policy Planning for the PPP and remained a part of the party’s Foreign Relations Committee.
Rehman has also written, and received accolades for, multiple fields; in 2006, she received R.L Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award, for The Kashmiri Shawl. She has written for multiple local publications (having been a journalist with the Daily Star and the editor of the Herald), and for others, such as Foreign Policy. In 2002, she became first Pakistani to be recognised with an award for independent journalism by the UK House of Lords in its Muslim World Awards Ceremony. For her work in defending journalistic freedom, she received ‘The Freedom Award’ Pakistan by the Association of Television Journalists.
She has also received recognition for her contribution to diplomacy and politics; in 2013, she received the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s highest civilian honor by the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari. In 2009, she was given the title of “Democracy’s Hero” by the International Republican Institute.
