Aik Din Geo Ke Sath | Kashmala Khan (Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplaces)
Kashmala Tariq (Urdu: کشمالہ طارق) is a Pakistani politician who is the current Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplaces, in office since February 2018. Previously, she was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to 2013.
Early life and education
Tariq holds a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science.[1]
Tariq is a lawyer by profession.[2] She married Waqas Khan in 2020.
Political career
Tariq was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) on a seat reserved for women from Punjab in the 2002 Pakistani general election.[3][4] During her tenure as Member of the National Assembly, she remained one of the vocal woman legislators.[5]
In 2007, she was elected as the Chairperson of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Committee.[6]
She was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PML-Q on a seat reserved for women from Punjab in the 2008 Pakistani general election.[2][7][8]
In February 2018, Tariq was appointed as the Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplaces for a period of four years.[5][9]
In March 2018, her staff beat up and held journalists from Waqt News against their will. She accused the journalists of recording an off-the-record conversation, after which she ordered her staff to forcibly take the journalist’s equipment and delete the recorded discussion.[10][11]
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