Shireen Mazari

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Shireen Mehrunnisa Mazari (Urdu: شیریں مہر النساء مزاری) is a former Pakistani politician who served as the Federal Minister for Human Rights, from 20 August 2018 to 10 April 2022. She has been the chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Appointment of Chief Election Commissioner and Members of the Election Commission of Pakistan. She has been former a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022, and served as the chief whip for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. She was also a National Assembly member from June 2013 to May 2018. Mazari studied at the London School of Economics and later received her PhD from Columbia University in political science. Mazari joined Quaid-i-Azam University as an associate professor and went on to head the university's strategic studies department. In 2002, Mazari became the head of the government-funded Institute of Strategic Studies and remained until she was sacked in 2008. In 2009, Mazari became the editor of The Nation.

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