Muslim Ministers of Defense .. Attending a constant tumult and controversy

Mary Haroon

Women have penetrated the world of defense ministries smoothly and smoothly, leaving the impact of merit and excellence on their ability to lead and plan. They work in silence but achieve impressive successes. Throughout history, the picture has not only included European defense ministers, but has emerged in the presence of many women ministers from the Islamic world.

NATO ministers
Seven women ministers who participated in NATO meetings represented France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Albania, out of the 28 countries participating in the alliance. Women control their hold on the Defense Ministry in Europe decades ago. Defending the European Union in the midst of nuclear nuclear conflicts, the French army is one of the largest armies in the European Union, and is handled by Florence Barley, a brilliant politician and pioneer in economics.

Barley took the case as a successor to Silvie Gular, the woman who left the ministry after some investigations and disagreements, known as the employment issue, but this does not negate her receiving the National Order of Merit.

Sheikh Hasina Wajid
Sheikha Hasina is currently the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. This is not the first time she has held the same position between 1996 and 2001. She is the eldest daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder and first president of the Republic of Bangladesh, who has been the victim of this assassination. Hasina and her sister stayed outside the country, but this did not stop the opponents from repeating the incident again, to receive a bomb while delivering a speech among her supporters but she survives again, after she suffered a partial loss of hearing, in addition to being subjected to exile in Britain and India until she was elected party chair And they succeeded in gaining this in Oud Here the country in 1981.

Hasina's party won the legislative elections in 1996, becoming prime minister until 2001, but unfortunately did not last long after the defeat of her party, until she returned to the same position in 2009, to be ranked ninth in the list of Forbes World, as one of Is the most powerful woman in politics in 2017. During that period, the Ministry of Defense portfolio has been in line with the prime minister, alternately since the 1990s with Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.

Khalida Zia
She served twice as prime minister from 1991 to 1996 and after that in 2001 and 2006, alternating with Sheikha Hasina throughout this period, but she was one of the most powerful women in the world. She even topped Forbes for the 100 most powerful women in the world from the beginning of 2004 through 2005 to number 29 , And until 2006 to be No. 33, in conjunction with taking over the portfolio of the Ministry of Defense along with the Prime Minister.

Khaleda Zia is not only the most powerful woman for Forbes, she is the first female prime minister in Bangladesh and also the second Muslim woman to head a government since her counterpart Benazir Bhutto.

Benazir Bhutto
Benazir is the daughter of Zulfikar Bhutto, his second wife, Iranian Nusrat Asfahani, who studied at the University of Oxford in Britain and was the friend of Teresa May, the current prime minister of Britain. The reason she is known to her current husband, Philip May, was considered the first Muslim woman in history to assume the premiership in 1988, She became the youngest elected Muslim governor at the age of 35, and then again in 1993 and 1996. Bhutto took over the Defense Ministry as well as the prime minister. She was accused of corruption within Pakistan and Switzerland. She faced money laundering cases and left Britain until she received an amnesty. Presidential planning began to return To Pakistan.

Bhutto was subjected to a failed assassination attempt in October 2007, but another attempt succeeded in her assassination in December 2007. The United Nations honored Bhutto after her death and awarded her the 2008 UN Human Rights Prize in recognition of her efforts to defend human rights.

Maria Ahmed Didi
Maria Didi obtained her law degree from the UK to become the first woman lawyer in the Maldives and began her journey - a human rights activist - until she became a member of Parliament after running an independent competition. But in 2005 she joined the Democratic Party of Maldives.

In 2018, the Democratic Party led by Ibrahim Suleih won the presidential election, becoming the portfolio of the Ministry of Defense for Maria Didi, who heads the Maldivian Defense Council responsible for securing the Maldivian Coast Guard, the main international and strategic corridor of India and China.

Securing this corridor is important for both countries because of its devastating economic impact, in the event of any disruption of the security system in the Maldives archipelago.