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Bushra Gohar

Pakistani politician

Summary

Pakistani politician

Field	Value
name	Bushra Gohar
native_name	بشرا ګوهر
image	Bushra_Gohar,_politician_from_Pakistan.jpg
office	Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
term_start	2008
term_end	2013
constituency	Reserved seat for women
birth_date
birth_place	Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
nationality	Pakistani
party	National Democratic Movement
alma_mater	Wilmington University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Peshawar
denomination
parents	Ali Gohar Khan (father)

| honorific-suffix = University of Pennsylvania University of Peshawar

Bushra Gohar (; ) is a Pakistani politician and a senior leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM). She has served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013. She is an activist in the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a social movement campaigning for Pashtun human rights. She was formerly the senior vice-president of Awami National Party (ANP).

Biography

Born in Swabi to a Pashtun family, Gohar studied economics at the University of Peshawar and moved to the United States where she received master's degree in human resource management from Wilmington University in 1991 followed by a postgraduate certificate in South Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. On return to Pakistan, she worked as a consultant with UNDP, USAID, and UKAid. In 2000, Gohar became a member of the National Commission on the Status of Women, a position she retained until 2003.

Her father, Ali Gohar Khan, was a Colonel in the Pakistan Army. Two of her paternal uncles, Sher Khan and Bahadur Sher, were Generals in the army, while a third one, Shahnawaz, was also a Colonel.

Political career

She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Awami National Party on a reserved seat for women from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the 2008 Pakistani general election.

From 2016 to 2018, she served as the senior vice-president of Awami National Party until the party suspended her membership.

References

(May 28, 2012). "President, PM condole with MNA Bushra Gohar on demise of her father".
Krishnankutty, Pia. (September 2, 2021). "Pashtun leaders launch National Democratic Movement, party to counter Pakistan 'militarisation'".
(March 29, 2019). "Female Activists Chart New Course In Pakistan's Conservative Pashtun Belt".
(December 16, 2018). "Suspension as good as expulsion".
"EPES Mandala Consulting - Gohar Bio".
"Ms. Bushra Gohar {{!}} Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention".
(March 14, 2011). "At 87, Col (R) Ali Gohar begins a new political journey".
(8 March 2008). "NWFP to have first elected woman minister". DAWN.COM.
(5 August 2011). "No end to phone tapping of women MNAs". DAWN.COM.
(11 April 2016). "Ex-MNA gets police response after eight years". DAWN.COM.

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