Bilquis Nasrum Minallah (1936 – 1 August 2012) was a Pakistani politician who served as a

Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan A Member of Parliament or Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan (abbreviated: MNA or MP) is a legislative constituency's representative in the National Assembly of Pakistan (Urdu: ایوانِ زیریں پاکستان‬), the Pakistan ...

from 1985 to 1988. Born to an ethnic

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically re ...

family, Minallah was educated at

Fatima Jinnah Medical College Fatima Jinnah Medical University ( ur, ), previously known as Balak Ram Medical College, is a public medical university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Fatima Jinnah Medical University with its associated teaching hospital Sir Ganga Ram ...

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. She served as a Member of the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...

for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on a reserved seat for women. She was married to Chief Secretary North-West Frontier Province Nasrum Minallah, and was the mother of current Justice of the

Supreme Court of Pakistan The Supreme Court of Pakistan ( ur, ; ''Adālat-e-Uzma Pākistān'') is the apex court in the judicial hierarchy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Established in accordance to thePart VIIof the Constitution of Pakistan, it has ultimate a ...

Athar Minallah Athar Minallah (; born 30 December 1961) is a Pakistani jurist serving as a judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan since 11 November 2022. Prior to that, he served as the 5th Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court from 28 November 2018 to 10 Novembe ...

, and human rights activist, Samar Minallah. She died in

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after a long illness in 2012, and was laid to rest in her native village of Sirikot in

Haripur District Haripur District ( ps, هریپور ولسوالۍ, ur, "The Town of Hari") is a district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The town of Haripur (meaning 'Hari's town') was founded in 1822 by Hari Singh Nalwa, the Com ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Minallah, Bilquis Nasrum Pashtun people 1936 births 2012 deaths People from Haripur District Pakistani MNAs 1985–1988