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Sadia Danish (Urdu: سعدیہ دانش) is a Pakistani politician. After serving in party positions within the Pakistan People's Party, she was elected to one of the reserved women's seats of the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly in 2009 and served as Minister of Information and Tourism . In 2023, she was unanimously elected as deputy speaker of the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, becoming the first woman elected to the post.
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Sadia Danish is a native of Gilgit.[1] She joined the Pakistan People's Party, later serving as the party's secretary of information and as a provincial president of their women's wing.[2][3] In the 2009 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, she was the head of the campaign of the women's wing.[3]
She was elected for the Pakistan People's Party as a reserved women's seat member of the first Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly in 2009, remaining there until 2014.[4][1] During her first term as MLA, she served as Gilgit-Baltistan's Minister for Information and Tourism from 2009 until 2014.[1] She was a member of National Commission on the Status of Women, having been the Gilgit Baltistan member in 2013.[2][3] She returned to the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly in 2020.[1]
On 17 July 2023, speaker Nazir Ahmed announced that Danish was unanimously elected as the Assembly's deputy speaker, as the sole nominee for the post on behalf of the ruling coalition; there was no nomination from any of the other MLAs, including the opposition.[1][5] She is the first woman elected to the post, with The Nation calling it a "landmark development".[1][2] After becoming deputy speaker, she announced her intention to focus on women empowerment in the province.[1]
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