21 Facts About Shireen Mazari

Shireen Mehrunnisa Mazari is a former Pakistani politician who served the Federal Minister for Human Rights, from 20 August 2018 to 10 April 2022.

Shireen Mazari is the chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Appointment of Chief Election Commissioner and Members of the Election Commission of Pakistan.

Shireen Mazari has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018, and served as a chief whip for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

Shireen Mazari joined Quaid-i-Azam University as an associate professor and went on to head the university's strategic studies department.

In 2002, Shireen Mazari became the head of the government-funded Institute of Strategic Studies and remained until she was sacked in 2008.

Shireen Mazari, an ethnic Baloch, is a graduate of the London School of Economics.

Shireen Mazari received her PhD in political science from Columbia University.

In 2009, Shireen Mazari was appointed as the editor of The Nation.

Shireen Mazari hosted a weekly television show on the Waqt News.

Shireen Mazari came under intensive criticism from the Committee to Protect Journalists after she publicly alleged an American journalist to be a CIA spy.

Shireen Mazari had been an associate professor at Quaid-i-Azam University and later became chairperson of the university's Department of Defense and Strategic Studies.

Shireen Mazari joined the PTI in 2008 In 2009, she was Information Secretary and Spokesperson of PTI.

Shireen Mazari was elected as the member of the National Assembly of Pakistan for the first time in 2013 Pakistani general election on the ticket of PTI on reserved seats for women from Punjab.

Shireen Mazari was the chief whip of PTI in the National Assembly of Pakistan.

Shireen Mazari was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PTI on a seat reserved for women from Punjab in the 2018 Pakistani general election.

On 23 May 2023, Shireen Mazari made the decision to leave the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and publicly announced her retirement from active politics seemingly under considerable duress.

Shireen Mazari cited personal reasons as the basis for her departure from the political arena.

Later, Shireen Mazari deleted her tweet and issued a clarification stating that the article on the basis of which she had written her tweet has been amended.

The online article, which was quoted by Shireen Mazari, now includes a clarification stating that the new law will be applied to all children in France.

Foreign Ministry of France thanked Shireen Mazari for deleting her tweet and accepted her clarification.

Shireen Mazari has been criticized for her silence on China's persecution of Uyghurs during a talkshow at Al Jazeera.