Kalsoom Perveen


Kalsoom Parveen was a Pakistani politician who served as a member of the Senate from March 2003 until her death on 21 December 2020.

Education

She did Bachelor of Education from the Balochistan University in 1994. She held the Master of Philosophy degree in history.

Political career

She was elected to the Senate of Pakistan on a reserved seat for women as a candidate of Pakistan [Muslim League (Q)] in the 2003 Senate election.
She ran for the seat of Senate in 2009 [Pakistani Senate election] as an independent candidate after she was not given ticket by PML and was successfully re-elected. She later joined Balochistan [National Party Awami].
In January 2015, she quit BNPA to join the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and also resigned from her seat in the Senate.
She was re-elected to the Senate of Pakistan on a reserved seat for women as a candidate of PML-N in the 2015 Pakistani Senate election. She also served as president of the Chess Federation of Pakistan.

Death

Perveen died of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan in a hospital in Islamabad on 21 December 2020.