Английская Википедия:Farahnaz Ispahani

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Farahnaz Ispahani (Шаблон:Lang-ur) is a Pakistani-American writer and former politician who served as member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 2008 and 2012. She is a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute and a member of the Anti-Defamation League Task Force on Middle East Minorities in Washington, D.C.[1][2]

Personal life

She is married to Husain Haqqani[3] and is the granddaughter of Abul Hassan Isphani.[3] She attended Wellesley College.

Professional career

As a journalist, she has worked with ABC News, CNN and MSNBC.[4]

She is a writer and authored Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan's Religious Minorities.[4]

In 2012, Ispahani was named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy.[4][5] She was also named as Top 100 Women Who Matter the same year by Newsweek Pakistan.[4][6]

From 2013 to 2014, she served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.[4]

Political career

She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party on a seat reserved for women from Sindh in the 2008 Pakistani general election.[7][8] During her tenure as Member of the National Assembly, she served as media advisor to President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari[9] from 2008 until 2012[10][11] when her National Assembly membership was terminated on the basis of holding dual nationality.[8]

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