PM Shehbaz sends summary to President Alvi for appointment of MQM-Pakistan’s leader Nasreen Jalil as Sindh governor

ISLAMABAD, May 08 (SABAH): Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has sent the summary to appoint MQM-Pakistan’s nominee Nasreen Jalil as the Sindh governor to President Dr. Arif Alvi here on Sunday.

According to a private TV channel, former Senator Nasreen Jalil will take oath as the Governor of Sindh after the proposal gets approved by the President of the country.

Nasreen Jalil has served as a Senator from March 2012 to March 2018. She would be the third female governor in the history of Pakistan after Dr. Shama Khalid who served as the governor of Gilgit-Baltistan from March-September 2010, and Begum Raana Liaquat Ali Khan who was the Sindh governor from 1973-1976.

MQM-Pakistan had suggested five names for the post of Sindh governor, party sources said last week. The names sent to PM Shehbaz Sharif for approval included Amir Khan, Amir Chishti, Waseem Akhtar, and Kishwar Zehra, besides Jalil.

Nasreen Jalil was born in Lahore but she spent most of her time in Karachi. In her childhood, she had been living in London. She went to Paris for her education. Besides Urdu, she is fluent in English and French.

She joined MQM and started her political career from Karachi. She served as a Senator two times. Nasreen Jalil had been elected as chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights in 1994 and 2012.

During the Karachi operation, she was arrested and handed down a three-year jail term. After spending six months in jail, she had been placed under house arrest.

It merits mention here that Nasreen Jalil’s father, Zafar-ul-Ahsan was the deputy commissioner of Lahore at the time of the British Indian Empire in 1947, and later he worked as an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer.