Rahela Shahadat Baloch is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the
National Assembly of Pakistan
The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...
from 2008 to 2013.
Family background
Her father Khan Shahadat Khan Baloch also remained Member
National Assembly of Pakistan
The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...
from 1988-1990 and 1993-1996 on
Pakistan Peoples Party
The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded ...
ticket.
Political career
She was elected to the
National Assembly of Pakistan
The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...
from
Constituency NA-78 (Faisalabad-IV) as a candidate of
Pakistan Peoples Party
The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded ...
(PPP) in
2008 Pakistani general election
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
In mathematics
8 is:
* a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2.
* a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...
. She received 79,127 votes and defeated
Rajab Ali Khan Baloch
Rajab Ali Khan Baloch (; 24 September 1969 – 13 May 2018) was a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 2002 and 2018.
Early life
Baloch was born on 24 September 1969 in a Village Chak No. 455 G.B. Ka ...
.
In June 2012, she was inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and was appointed as Minister of State for Science and Technology where she continued to serve until March 2013.
References
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Living people
Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013
Year of birth missing (living people)