Fehmida Mirza

Fehmida Mirza (born 20 December 1956) is a Pakistani politician and physician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 19 March 2008 to 3 June 2013, the first woman to hold that office, and subsequently as Federal Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination from 2018 to 2022. ¹

The English article spells her first name "Fahmida"; the Urdu article and common Pakistani usage give "Fehmida", the spelling this record keeps, with the variant noted. ^{1 2}

She has sat in the National Assembly across five terms — 1997–99, 2002–07, 2008–13, 2013–18 and 2018–23 — each time elected from Badin in Sindh. ¹

She was born on 20 December 1956 in Karachi, the daughter of Qazi Abdul Majeed Abid, a politician and journalist from Hyderabad. ^{1 3}

The Urdu article fills out the family: the Mirzas are known as the Qazis of Hyderabad, her grandfather Qazi Abdul Qayyum was the first Muslim president of Hyderabad Municipality, and her father held provincial ministries in Sindh. ²

She completed her schooling at St Mary's Convent in Hyderabad in 1972 and took her MBBS from Liaquat Medical College in Jamshoro in 1982, then worked as chief executive of a Karachi-based advertising company and as chief executive officer of Mirza Sugar Mills. ¹

She joined the Pakistan Peoples Party in 1997 and was elected to the National Assembly from NA-173 (Badin-II) in that year's general election. ¹

She was re-elected from NA-225 (Badin-II) in 2002 with 71,537 votes against the PML-Q's Khan Mohammad Halipota, and again in 2008 from NA-225 (Badin-cum-Tando Muhammad Khan-II) with 88,983 votes against Bibi Yasmeen Shah. ¹

On 19 March 2008 she was elected Speaker of the National Assembly — the article's lead numbers her the 16th Speaker and its narrative section the 18th, a discrepancy inside the article that this record notes without resting on either number — receiving 249 votes to Muhammad Israr Tareen's 70, and becoming the first woman to hold the position. ¹

She held the speakership until 3 June 2013, and was meanwhile re-elected to the Assembly in 2013 from Badin with 110,738 votes. ¹

In May 2018 she resigned from the PPP, stating that its government had caused deteriorating conditions in Sindh and had ignored the people of Badin, and in June 2018 she joined the Grand Democratic Alliance; in the same month the State Bank of Pakistan declared both her and her husband, Zulfiqar Mirza, loan defaulters, as the article records. ¹

She was re-elected from NA-230 (Badin-II) as a GDA candidate in the 2018 general election, and on 20 August 2018 she was sworn in as Federal Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination in Prime Minister Imran Khan's cabinet, holding the portfolio until 10 April 2022. ¹

This section reports what the sources record of Mirza's belief, without a verdict from the museum.

The English article records no religion for her. Wikidata's structured claims give her religion as Islam, and also as Shia Islam. ^{1 3}

The Urdu article describes her as belonging to "a Sindhi Shia Muslim political family" — a statement about her family's identity, not an attestation of her own school. ²

Under the museum's rules, one structured-data claim plus a family's described identity do not make two independent attestations of a branch, and family background never counts; the faith segment therefore stays unknown, with the attestations stated exactly as above. ^{3 2}

She is married to Zulfiqar Mirza, a Sindh politician, and has two sons and two daughters; the museum publishes no further family detail. ¹

• English Wikipedia article "Fahmida Mirza" (revision 1381570096); Urdu Wikipedia article «فہمیدہ مرزا» (revision 7889697); Arabic Wikipedia article «فهميدة ميرزا» (revision 75290614); Wikidata item Q2371076.
• Conflicts recorded, not resolved: the spelling of her first name (Fahmida in the English article, Fehmida in Urdu usage and the founder's queue — Fehmida is kept); the article's numbering of her speakership (16th in its lead, 18th in its narrative).