Shehrbano Rehman

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name = Sherbano Rehman


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order = Federal Minister for Health, Pakistan
term_start = April 11, 2008
term_end = None
monarch =
primeminister = Yousaf Raza Gillani
predecessor = Muhammad Nasir Khan
successor = None
birth_date = December 21, 1960
birth_place = Karachi, Sindh
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constituency =
party = Pakistan Peoples Party
spouse = Nadeem Hussain [http://www.mahalo.com/Sherry_rehman]
children = 1
profession = Journalist
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religion = Islam


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Shehrbano "Sherry" Rehman or Shahrbano Rahman (Urdu: شہر بانو رحمان )(b. December 21, 1960) is a senior Pakistani politician, journalist, parliamentarian and the member of the Pakistan Peoples Party. She was appointed Minister for Information & Broadcasting by Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Gilani and sworn in by President Pervez Musharraf on March 31, 2008.

Biography

Shirin Rehman was born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan on December 21, 1960. Rehman's father, the late Hassanally A. Rahman worked for years in public education and law, and her mother was the first woman vice president of the State Bank of Pakistan. “I was exposed early on to the idea of women working and public life,” she says. “There was always an expectation to go out and earn your own living.”

She has studied art history and politics at Smith College and the University of Sussex.

Her performance as federal minister of health has raised several brows. While Pakistani doctors are trained in western medicine since long she while talking to a US health official supported a so called China style "Barefoot doctor" scheme .The scheme involves considerable recruitment of about 100000 female workers whose sole medical qualification is few month or weeks of ramshakle type training and who do not possess even a proper simple school degree. Pakistan produces more that 4000 doctors a year and many are unemployed .

She has been charged with abusing the health services which she heads . Although she is not significantly sick the junior doctors undertaking training in PIMS which is a local hospital are made to visit and attend her daily in office . This was objected to by house officers and other doctors as this unpaid task was not part of training programme .

Published Work

Rehman's latest book "The Kashmiri Shawl: From Jamawar to Paisley", that she co-authored with Ms Naheed Jafri, was published in 2006 by Mapin Publishing India and Antique Collectors Club UK. The book has been selected for The R.L Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award for 2006 [http://www.textilesociety.org/awards_shep.htm] , in the US. Ms Rehman will receive her award at the 11th Beinnial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, in Hawai, in September 2008.

Awards

*2002: Rehman was the first Pakistani to be recognized with an award for independent journalism by the UK House of Lords in its Muslim World Awards Ceremony in the year 2002.

*2006: R.L Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award, "The Kashmiri Shawl"

References

External links

* [http://saqonline.smith.edu/article.epl?issue_id=2&article_id=37 Pakistan's Fiery Feminist]