Sharmila Faruqui
Sharmila Sahiba Faruqui Hasham is a Pakistani politician from Karachi, affiliated with the Pakistan Peoples Party.
Family and education
Faruqui is the daughter of Usman Farooqi, who was a bureaucrat and a former chairman of Pakistan Steel Mill and Anisa. She belongs to a Sindhi family. Her maternal grandfather was N M Uqaili, former Pakistan Minister of Finance and Faruqui is the niece of Salman Faruqui, a confidante of former President Asif Ali Zardari.Faruqui earned her Master of Business Administration from the Adamson Institute of Business Administration and Technology, Karachi and a Master of Laws degree.
Faruqui married Hasham Riaz Sheikh, a former Wall Street investment banker and presently an advisor to Asif Ali Zardari, on 5 March 2015.
Career
Prior to joining politics as a Pakistan Peoples Party leader, Faruqui worked as an actress. She appeared in a Drama serial "Panchwa Mausam" along with Aijaz Aslam, Talat Hussain, Abdullah Kadwani and Gulab Chandio.She appears on TV political news/talk/public affairs News channels to defend her party and government from corruption allegations.
She previously served as a member of Provincial Assembly of Sindh from 2013-2018 and was reelected in 2018 Pakistani general elections and later became its member in February 2020.