President Asif Ali Zardari Name Farahnaz Ispahani Party Pakistan Peoples Party Citizenship Pakistan, USA Education Wellesley College | Constituency Sindh-XI Spouse Husain Haqqani (m. 2000) Role Pakistani Politician Residence Islamabad, Pakistan | |
Preceded by Major-General Rashid Qureshi Majority Pakistan People's Party Full Name Farahnaz Ispahani | ||
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani | ||
Ambassador haqqani farahnaz ispahani charlie rose
Farahnaz Ispahani (Urdu: فرحناز اصفهانی) (born 1963) is a Pakistani author, journalist, politician, and policy analyst. She is a former Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. She is the author of "Purifying the Land of the Pure; Pakistan's Religious Minorities", which describes the problems and victimisation of religious minorities in Pakistan since its creation in 1947. Previously, she served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and Media Advisor to the President of Pakistan from 2008 until 2012.
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- Ambassador haqqani farahnaz ispahani charlie rose
- Pakistani politician farahnaz ispahani talks about ahmadiyya muslims in pakistan
- Family and education
- Professional career
- Political career
- References
Pakistani politician farahnaz ispahani talks about ahmadiyya muslims in pakistan
Family and education
Ispahani was born in Karachi, and grew up in Karachi, Dhaka and London. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, majoring in political science.
She is married to Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States, and is the granddaughter of Pakistan's first ambassador to the United States, Mirza Abol Hassan Ispahani.
Professional career
Ispahani spent two decades in journalism—both print and television—before entering politics. She worked in broadcasting, working with MSNBC, CNN, (ABC) and (VOA) assisting in the launch of new programs including CNN's Paula Zahn Now and Anderson Cooper 360°. In addition, she served as the Managing Editor and Executive Producer for the Voice of America Urdu language television program Beyond the Headlines. She served as Editor Special Reports for the leading Pakistani news magazine The Herald, and was the Editor of Zameen, a magazine oriented toward Pakistanis living abroad. She is a regular contributor in The News, Pakistan's second largest English-language newspaper, Express Tribune and Daily Times.
Political career
In 2008, Farahnaz Ispahani joined the National Assembly of Pakistan as a Member from the Pakistan Peoples Party, representing the Sindh province in the reserved seats for women. She was a member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Information and Broadcasting, and the Human Rights Committee as well as Media Adviser to President Asif Ali Zardari. In May 2012, the Supreme Court of Pakistan suspended her National Assembly membership due to her dual possession of American nationality.
In 2012, Ispahani was named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine.