Sharmila Sahiba Faruqui Hashaam (Urdu: شرمیلا صاحبہ فاروقی ہشام; born 25 January 1978) is a Pakistani politician from

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, affiliated with the Pakistan Peoples Party.

Early life and career

Faruqui is the maternal granddaughter of

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, former Pakistan Minister of Finance and daughter of Usman Farooqi, who was a bureaucrat and a former Chairman of Pakistan Steel Mill. Faruqui is the niece of Salman Faruqui, a confidante of former

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. Farooqi earned her

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from the Adamson Institute of Business Administration and Technology,

and a

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degree. Faruqui is married to Hasham Riaz Sheikh, a former

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investment banker and presently an advisor to the former

. Faruqui married Hasham Riaz Sheikh on 5 March 2015. She appears on TV political

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/ talk/ public affairs

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to defend her party and government from corruption allegations. Prior joining politics as a

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Leader, Faruqui worked as an actress. She appeared in a

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serial "Panchwa Mausam" along with

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, Talat Hussain,

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and Gulab Chandio. She previously served as a member of

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from 2013–2018 and was reelected in

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s and later became its member in February 2020.

Corruption

In 2001, Faruqui along with her father Usman Faruqui, a former chairman of Pakistan Steel Mills, embezzled Rs 195 billion ($1.95 billion) from Pakistan Steel Mills and

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through

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and

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. Anisa Faruqui , mother of Sharmila, entered into a

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with the

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on 28 April 2001 after being arrested with

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(FIR) No. 19/96, and given into the custody of the Ehtesab Cell by the Special Judge, Central II, handling cases of top

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public servants like Usman Faruqui. Sharmila Faruqui and her family were extensively investigated by officers of the

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and officials

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due to the non-payment of electricity bills worth Rs 1 million.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Farooqi, Sharmila 1978 births Living people Pakistan People's Party politicians Sindhi politicians 20th-century Pakistani actresses Pakistani actor-politicians Sindh MPAs 2013–2018 Pakistani television actresses Women members of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh 21st-century Pakistani actresses Convent of Jesus and Mary, Karachi alumni 21st-century Pakistani women politicians Sindh MPAs 2018–2023 Sindhi women politicians Sindhi actresses

Early life and career

Corruption

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