ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's national assembly was set to elect its first woman speaker yesterday, a member of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, which won elections last month.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's national assembly was set to elect its first woman speaker yesterday, a member of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, which won elections last month.
Fehmida Mirza, 51, a doctor from a political family in Sindh province, is expected to easily defeat a candidate from the main party that backs President Pervez Musharraf. - Reuters
Female first for Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's national assembly was set to elect its first woman speaker yesterday, a member of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, which won elections last month.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's national assembly was set to elect its first woman speaker yesterday, a member of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, which won elections last month.
Fehmida Mirza, 51, a doctor from a political family in Sindh province, is expected to easily defeat a candidate from the main party that backs President Pervez Musharraf. - Reuters