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Rashida Riffat
Pakistani politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rashida Riffat (Urdu: راشدہ رفعت) is a Pakistani politician who has been a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since May 2013.
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Education
Riffat has graduated in Journalism.[1]
Political career
She was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a candidate of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan on a reserved seat for women in the 2013 Pakistani general election.[2][3][4]
In September 2013, she was appointed as parliamentary secretary in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly without a department[5] until she was discharged in November 2013.[6]
In May 2016, she joined a resolution to establish a Women's Caucus in the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[7][8] She also joined a resolution to declare 8 July as Charity Day in honour of Abdul Sattar Edhi.[9]
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