Ismat Raza Shahjahan is a socialist-feminist political leader from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
17 Facts About Ismat Shahjahan
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Ismat Shahjahan is the president of Women Democratic Front, the deputy general-secretary of the Awami Workers Party, and a leading member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement.
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Ismat Shahjahan ran for the National Assembly seat NA-54 in the 2018 Pakistani general election.
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Ismat Shahjahan did her Bachelor of Arts in law and political science from Jinnah College for Women, University of Peshawar, and studied public administration at the University of Peshawar.
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Ismat Shahjahan studied development studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague, Netherlands.
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Ismat Shahjahan has worked as an international finance specialist at the Asian Development Bank in Islamabad.
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Ismat Shahjahan's son, Sparlay Rawail, is a lead guitarist in Khumariyaan, a Pashto music band.
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Ismat Shahjahan was born into a progressive family that had supported the Pashtun leader, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, in his nonviolent Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against the British Raj.
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Ismat Shahjahan gained political consciousness since very early in her life.
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Ismat Shahjahan started revolutionary politics as a university student leader in 1983, during the era of Zia-ul-Haq's martial law, when there was ban on student unions.
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Ismat Shahjahan worked actively with the Muttahida Labour Federation.
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Ismat Shahjahan has remained part of democratic movements against anti-state oppression, dictatorships and anti-war campaigns.
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Ismat Shahjahan is the deputy general secretary of the party and aims to promote progressive politics in Pakistan.
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Ismat Shahjahan is involved in building a socialist feminist movement, from the platform of the Women Democratic Front.
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Ismat Shahjahan took part in organizing Aurat Azadi March 2020 in Islamabad despite facing threats from the right wing parties.
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In May 2018, Ismat Shahjahan was nominated as a representative of the PTM's reconciliatory jirga for negotiations with the state institutions.
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Ismat Shahjahan remained a publisher of the well-known progressive revolutionary Pashto journal Leekwal in 1992.