Fauzia Wahab, Pakistani actress and politician (b. 1956)
Fauzia Wahab (Urdu: فوزیہ وہاب; 14 November 1956 – 17 June 2012), was a politician who served as the senior ex officio member and the secretary-general of the central executive committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
A graduate from the Karachi University, she entered national politics in 1994 and successfully contested in 2002 general elections and again in 2008 general elections. She was notably appointed as the Secretary Information of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) after the resignation of Sherry Rehman, and as well secured the chairmanship of the standing committee on finance and revenue in 2008. She was personally endorsed by President Asif Ali Zardari and became senior, high-ranking member of the central executive committee. Earning media notoriety on passing controversial comments on Raymond Davis incident in 2011, she was admitted at the local hospital for an elective gall bladder surgery on 24 May 2012 and died on Sunday, 17 June 2012.
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