Fauzia Kasuri ( ur, فوزیہ قصوری, born September 8, 1952) is a
Pakistani politician
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...
who was until recently one of the central figures of
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the thre ...
.
Career
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Kasuri is a former member and recent critic of the
PTI PTI may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Pardon the Interruption'', an American television sports show
* PTI, a musical group on the WTII Records label
Organizations
* Pacific Torah Institute, a yeshiva high school in Vancouver, British Columb ...
, a political party in Pakistan. She resigned 2 months before the
2018 Pakistani General Elections. Apart from raising funds for the party, she had been President of the Women's Wing of the party for 17 years and was responsible for building women chapters of the party in Europe, the Middle East and the US. She had been a member of the Manifesto and Constitution Committees of the party and had played a leading role in nurturing the women and youth wings within the party.
She was a long time volunteer for the
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre ( ur, , abbreviated as SKMCH&RC/SKMCH) is a cancer centre with locations in Lahore and Peshawar, Pakistan. It is the first project of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, a charitabl ...
, involved in international fund raising for the charity. Kasuri also had a long track record of fund raising for the
Imran Khan Foundation. Having been affiliated with many social causes like SOS and the Layton Rahmatullah Benevolent Trust, she is also on the board of I-Care Foundation in Pakistan and was a leading figure for the relief work with the
internally displaced person
An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders. They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee.
A ...
s from
Waziristan
Waziristan (Pashto and ur, , "land of the Wazir") is a mountainous region covering the former FATA agencies of North Waziristan and South Waziristan which are now districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Waziristan covers some . ...
.
Personal life and education
Fauzia Kasuri was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She studied at the
Karachi American School
The Karachi American School (KAS) ( ur, ), formerly known as Karachi American Society School, is a preschool to Grade 13 day school located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
History
The school was founded in 1952 as Karachi American Society School ...
and
St Joseph's College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the
University of Karachi
The University of Karachi ( sd, ; informally Karachi University, KU, or UoK) is a public research university located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Established in June 1951 by an act of Parliament and as a successor to the University of Sindh (whic ...
. She later joined the MBA program at the
University of North Carolina
The University of North Carolina is the multi-campus public university system for the state of North Carolina. Overseeing the state's 16 public universities and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it is commonly referred to as the UNC Sy ...
, studying economics and statistics.
References
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Living people
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf politicians
1955 births
People from Islamabad
University of Karachi alumni
Karachi American School alumni
Pakistani emigrants to the United States
University of North Carolina alumni
Former United States citizens