Name Zil-e-Huma Shaheed | ||
Died February 19, 2007, Gujranwala, Pakistan | ||
Zil-e-Huma Usman Shaheed (1975 – February 19, 2007) was a young Pakistani legislator and a minister for social welfare in the cabinet of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab. She was a member of the Pakistan Muslim League party. She was shot to dead in Gujranwala in broad daylight on February 19, 2007, by Islamic fanatic Mullah Sarwar, who believed the presence of women in politics was un-Islamic.
Her supporters have christened her a martyr in the cause of women's rights in Pakistan.
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