- Sassui Palijo
Sassui Palijo (Urdu: سسی پلیجو ) is a young liberal politician and writer in
Pakistan . She is one of the youngest candidates fielded by thePakistan Peoples Party . She is an elected Member of theProvincial Assembly of Sindh from Mirpur Sakro Thatta PS-85 THATTA-II. She is the only directly elected assembly member in Sindh. She was appointed as the Minister of Culture and Tourism in Sindh cabinet in April 2008.She was born in
Jungshahi ,Thatta and has a law degree fromLondon . She has been an active campaigner for human rights and gender justice and a strong opponent ofPervez Musharraf 's regime. Sassui Palijo's father, Ghulam Qadir Palijo, ia also active in politics.Her mother,
Akhtar Baloch , was the first female Sindhi political leader to be arrested under General Ayub's martial law during the Sindhi student movement when she was 17 years old, she was kept at Hyderabad andSukkur jails for more than a year. Akhtar Baloch also wrote Pakistan's first woman prisoner's diary "Qedyani ji Diary" (Prisoner's Diary) which was translated into English and Russian. Sassui's father is twice elected PPPMember of Provincial Assembly (MPA). Her grandmother was the late JijiZarina Baloch who was a well known writer, folk singer and political activist.References
*http://www.ppp.org.pk/
*http://www.un.org.pk/undp/gender/legislative.pdf
*newline November 2003
*http://www.newsline.com.pk/Newsnov2003/cover4nov2003.htm
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palijo
*http://www.pas.gov.pk/info.htm
*http://www.panos.org.uk/newsfeatures/featureprintable.asp?id=1158
*http://www.sindh.gov.pk/dpt/PROVINCIAL
*http://www.bundestag.de/wissen/bibliothek/library/pakis14.html
*http://www.atsindh.com/jjzb/index.html
*/www.ghalib.com/democracy/Women/
*http://www.alrc.net/pr/mainfile.php/2004pr/58/
*www.ecp.gov.pk/content/docs/STATS
*http://www.dubaippp.homestead.com
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