Pakistan: after her father, uncle and cousin, Maryam Sharif takes over as head of Punjab

2024-02-26T21:43:02.266Z

Highlights: Maryam Sharif becomes patron of the Punjab region, 127 million inhabitants. It's proof, she says, that being a woman and a girl cannot thwart your dreams. No woman before her had achieved this, while Pakistan had embarked very early on a virtuous slope in terms of parity. We must hope, writes a Pakistani academic, that she uses her office as a platform for gender equality, and that she serves as an example throughout the country. The coalition agreement provides for Shehbaz Sharif in power and Asif Ali Zardari as president.

Her name is Maryam Sharif, she is the daughter of her father Nawaz, one of the leaders of Pakistani politics. But she is also now the first woman to head a province in Pakistan.…

Pakistan: after her father, uncle and cousin, Maryam Sharif takes over as head of Punjab

Her name is Maryam Sharif, she is the daughter of her father Nawaz, one of the leaders of Pakistani politics.

But she is also now the first woman to head a province in Pakistan.

Maryam Sharif becomes patron of the Punjab region, 127 million inhabitants.

It's proof, she says, that being a woman and a girl cannot thwart your dreams.

Maryam Nawaz Sharif, this Monday February 26, 2024 in Lahore.

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In the past, his father, his uncle and his cousin all held this position: head of government of Punjab, Pakistan's richest and most populous province.

But no woman before her had achieved this, while Pakistan had embarked very early on a virtuous slope in terms of parity, in 1988, with the appointment at the age of 35 of Benazir Bhutto as Prime Minister. minister, the one nicknamed at the time the “iron lady”, becoming both the first woman and the youngest democratically elected leader of a country with a Muslim majority.

Maryam Sharif is not there.

And will first have to make a name for himself, to distance himself from the dynastic label and from his father Nawaz, the titan of Pakistani politics, three times head of government.

We must hope, writes a Pakistani academic, that she uses her office as a platform for gender equality, and that she serves as an example throughout the country.

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Pakistan: after her father, uncle and cousin, Maryam Sharif takes over as head of Punjab

Pakistan: after her father, uncle and cousin, Maryam Sharif takes over as head of Punjab

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