Rashida Riffat () is a Pakistani politician who has been a Member of the

Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa The Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which is located in Peshawar, the provincial capital. It was established under Article 106 of ...

, since May 2013.

Education

Riffat has graduated in Journalism.

Political career

She was elected to the

as a candidate of

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami (JI; Urdu: , "Islamic Congress"), or Jamaat as it is simply known, is an Islamist political party which is based in Pakistan and it is the Pakistani successor to Jamaat-e-Islami, which was founded in colonial India in 1941. I ...

on a reserved seat for women in 2013 Pakistani general election. In September 2013, she was appointed as parliamentary secretary in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly without a department until she was discharged in November 2013. In May 2016, she joined a resolution to establish a Women's Caucus in the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She also joined a resolution to declare 8 July as Charity Day in honour of

Abdul Sattar Edhi Abdul Sattar Edhi ( ur, ; 28 February 1928 – 8 July 2016) was a Pakistani humanitarian, philanthropist and ascetic who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest volunteer ambulance network, along with various homeless sh ...

References

Living people Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Pakistan-politician-stub