Karachi: Fauzia Wahab, a social worker and politician, died on June 17, 2012 leaving behind many of his followers and lovers to mourn but she would be remembered in the history of Pakistan for many years.
She was associated with Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and was a member of National Assembly from Sindh returned on a reserved seat for women after the February 18, 2008 general elections.
Fauzia Wahab had been appointed as the new central Information Secretary of the Pakistan People’s Party in place of Ms. Sherry Rehman on March 18, 2009 by the party Co-Chairman, Asif Ali Zardari.
Personal life:
Fauzia was born in November 14, 1956 and is the eldest of four children.
She married in 1978 to Wahab Siddiqui, a journalist. For the next fourteen years, she was a housewife and had four children.
Fauzia Wahab acted in Haseena Moin’s drama serial ‘Kohar’ as the cousin of the hero played by then famous model Junaid Butt. The Drama was aired in 1991-92 and directed by M Zaheer Khan.
In February 1993, Wahab Siddiqui died of a massive heart attack and her life took a new turn. She then re-married prominent cardiologist Dr Athar Hussein.
Political career:
Fauzia Wahab worked for the Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Leasing as a Marketing Manager between 1993 and 1996. During this period, she was nominated as Member Advisory Council of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) in October 1994.
Initially she was given charge of the a Municipal Ward 59, area consisting of Cooperative societies of Karachi. She was also nominated as Chairman of the Information Committee of KMC.
In the meanwhile, then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto nominated her to become the Information Secretary of women’s wing of the PPP in Sindh, a position Fauzia held till early 2002. After the dissolution of the PPP government in November 1996, general elections were held in February 1997 in which she was nominated to contest the elections on NA-193, as a PPP candidate. The PPP lost the elections and was confined to the opposition benches in the subsequent National Assembly.
Death:
Fauzia Wahab was admitted to a local hospital and underwent a gal bladder surgery her condition went critical after two weeks of surgery and died on Sunday evening. Pakistan People’s Party announced 10-days mourning on her death.
Almost every single Pakistani politician expressed grief and sorrow on her death including President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.
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