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Marvi Memon
Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme
In office
25 February 2015 – 23 June 2018
PresidentMamnoon Hussain
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
Preceded byEnver Baig
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
1 June 2013 – 31 May 2018
In office
17 March 2008 – 23 June 2011
ConstituencyReserved seat for women
Personal details
Born (1972-07-21) July 21, 1972 (age 52)[1][2]
Karachi, Sindh Province, Pakistan
Political partyPakistan Muslim League (N)
SpouseNone
Parent
Alma materLondon School of Economics

Marvi Memon (Template:Lang-ur; born 21 July 1972) is a Pakistani politician who recently served as Chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme, from February 2015 until June 2018. She had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from March 2008 to June 2011 and again from June 2013 to May 2018.

Early life and education

Memon was born in July 1972 in Karachi, Pakistan[3] to Nisar Memon.[1]

Memon studied in Karachi, Kuwait City and Paris,[1][4] She then enrolled in the London School of Economics from where she completed her B.Sc. (Econ.) Honors in International Relations in 1993.[1][5][6]

Professional career

Prior to joining politics, Memon worked as an intern at DAWN, Newsline, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, International Union for Conservation of Nature and the United States embassy in Islamabad.[4]

After graduating from the London School of Economics, Memon worked as a banker[7] at Citibank where she specialized in Marketing and Quality Management[8] and later with Pakistan Television Corporation, before moving to launch Trakker, Pakistan's largest vehicle tracking service provider which established her as an entrepreneur.[8] Memon joined the Inter-Services Public Relations in 2004 and served in its media monitoring and analysis wing until 2007. She also worked as advisor to President of Pakistan on Media Management and on Investments.[8]

Political career

Memon launched her political career as an advisor within Pakistan’s Board of Investment, her primary role being advising the Minister of Strategies on marketing Pakistan’s profitable sectors. [9] She joined Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) in 2007 and was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 2008 general election[7] on a reserved seat for women from Punjab.[2]

During her tenure as MNA, she served as a member on the opposition benches, and held various positions including a member of the standing committee of Environment, Information Technology and Kashmir. Her work paid particular focus on rural and urban vulnerabilities faced by women. Some of her key legislative pieces include:

  1. The Acid and Burns Crime Legislation, which also became the subject of Pakistan’s first Oscar winning documentary [10]
  2. Legislation to set up the Pakistani Institute of Parliamentary Services, which is Pakistan’s first research and training institute for parliamentarians[11]
  3. Procedures and obligations of airlines after air crashes [12]
  4. Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Flood Commission Report which is a technical report taking account of climate change, and government obligations pre and post flooding [13]
  5. Rights of rural women faced with honour killings [14]
  6. Worker rights in the agriculture sector [15]

Memon resigned from the National Assembly in 2011[3][16] and left the PML-Q in protest after the party joined the PPP led-coalition government.[17]

On 2012, she launched memoir My Parliamentary Diaries, her account of everyday life as a parliamentarian.[18]

Memon joined Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) in 2012,[7] after months long rumours that she might join Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).[19][20][21][22] Reportedly, Khawaja Saad Rafique facilitated her to join PML-N after she was unable to get a top position in the PTI.[23] However she was unable to secure party's vacant reserved seat slot in the National Assembly.[24]

She ran for the seat of the National Assembly from the Constituency NA-237 (Thatta-I) in 2013 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful.[21][25] She received over 23,000 votes and lost the seat to a candidate of PPP.[23] In the same election, she ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from Constituency PS-88 (Thatta-V) as a candidate of PML-N but was unsuccessful. She received 1,296 votes and lost the seat to Owais Muzaffar.[26]

However, she was re-elected to the National Assembly on a reserved seat for women from Sindh.[25][27][28] Memon initially served as Prime minister's youth wing coordinator[29] before she was appointed Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme with status of Minister of State in February 2015.[21][30][31]

In April 2017, she was appointed as the member of the Advisory Council on Gender and Development at World Bank.[7]

She ceased to hold the status of Minister of State when the federal cabinet was disbanded after Nawaz Sharif resigned as Prime Minister.[32] Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the new prime minister in August 2017,[33] she was re-appointed as the Minister of State in the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.[34]

In March 2018, it was reported that PML-N refused to nominate her as the party's candidate from Thatta constituency in the 2018 Pakistani general election.[23] In April 2018, she was elevated as a federal minister in the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.[35]

Upon the dissolution of the National Assembly on the expiration of its term on 31 May 2018, she ceased to hold the status of a federal minister.[36] In June 2018, PPP wrote a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan and demanded resignation of Memon as chairperson of BISP alleging that PML-N was planning to manipulate 2018 general elections through Memon as head of BISP.[37] PTI also demanded her removal after which caretaker Prime Minister Nasirul Mulk proposed President to remove her in order to ensure holding 2018 general elections in a free and fair manner.[38] She was removed from the office of chair of BISP on 23 June 2018.[39]

Awards and honours

In March 2017, Memon received the Speaker's Democracy Award by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.[40][41]

In July 2017, she was conferred the French National Order of Merit by the French Ambassador to Pakistan in Islamabad.[42]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Ms. Marvi Memon profile". bisp.gov.pk. Benazir Income Support Programme. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b "Marvi Memon". DAWN.COM. 28 April 2013. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ a b "Marvi Memon". Daily Times. 29 August 2017. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ a b "Profile. Marvi Memon MNA". pncp.net. Archived from the original on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "Marvi Memon". DAWN.COM. 28 April 2013. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "A glance at Sindh's female election hopefuls". DAWN.COM. 7 May 2013. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ a b c d "Marvi Memon appointed to WB Advisory Council on Gender and Development". DAWN.COM. 24 April 2017. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ a b c "World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development". World Bank. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ Newspaper, From the (27 August 2011). "Collection of Marvi's parliamentary diaries launched". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  10. ^ Abbas, Nosheen (29 February 2012). "Pakistan's Oscar triumph for acid attack film Saving Face". Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  11. ^ "Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services". www.pips.gov.pk. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  12. ^ Tribune.com.pk (28 July 2013). "Airblue crash anniversary: Could lives have been saved?". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  13. ^ "SC orders implementation of recommendations in Flood Commission report | Pakistan Today". www.pakistantoday.com.pk. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  14. ^ Wilkinson, Isambard (5 August 2009). "Pakistan to outlaw domestic violence". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  15. ^ "Marvi writes to PM, CJP on human rights' abuse | Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)". www.pakistanpressfoundation.org. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  16. ^ "Resignation of Marvi Memon accepted". DAWN.COM. 23 June 2011. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  17. ^ "Voting against the budget: Marvi Memon resigns from NA, PML-Q – The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 23 June 2011. Archived from the original on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ Newspaper, From the (27 August 2011). "Collection of Marvi's parliamentary diaries launched". DAWN.COM. Archived from the original on 25 April 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  19. ^ "Marvi Memon announces decision to join PML-N". DAWN.COM. 4 March 2012. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ "Supporting Musharraf was political blunder: Marvi Memon". DAWN.COM. 14 March 2012. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  21. ^ a b c "Marvi Memon appointed as BISP chairperson". www.thenews.com.pk. 25 February 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  22. ^ "Gross mistake, realised in time not to join PTI: Marvi Memon – The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 15 March 2012. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  23. ^ a b c "Marvi Memon's volte face on PML-N leadership reveals fissures in party". www.pakistantoday.com.pk. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  24. ^ "Marvi Memon loses out on vacant PML-N seat - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  25. ^ a b "PML-N nominates Marvi Memon for NA reserved seat – The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 26 May 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  26. ^ "2013 election result" (PDF). ECP. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  27. ^ "PML-N secures most reserved seats for women in NA – The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 28 May 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  28. ^ "Women, minority seats allotted". DAWN.COM. 29 May 2013. Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  29. ^ "Loan scheme launched in Fata". DAWN.COM. 19 January 2014. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  30. ^ "Marvi Memon to head BISP". DAWN.COM. 26 February 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  31. ^ "Marvi Memon appointed as BISP chairperson". Dunya News. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  32. ^ "PM Nawaz Sharif steps down; federal cabinet stands dissolved". Daily Pakistan Global. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  33. ^ Chaudhry, Dawn.com, Fahad (1 August 2017). "Shahid Khaqan Abbasi sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  34. ^ Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff (27 August 2017). "Status of federal minister conferred on Fazl". DAWN.COM. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  35. ^ "Govt expands cabinet months before elections - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 27 April 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  36. ^ "Notification" (PDF). Cabinet division. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  37. ^ "Letter to CJP: PPPP wants Marvi to resign as BISP chief - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  38. ^ Wasim, Amir (22 June 2018). "Caretaker PM asks president to remove Marvi Memon as BISP chairperson". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  39. ^ Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff (23 June 2018). "Marvi removed as BISP chairperson". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  40. ^ "Speaker's Democracy Award – inaugural winner announced". parliament.uk. 30 March 2017. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  41. ^ "Marvi Memon conferred Speaker's Democracy Award by UK parliament". DAWN.COM. 31 March 2017. Archived from the original on 30 March 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  42. ^ "Marvi Memon conferred French National Order of Merit". DAWN.COM. 22 July 2017. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
Political offices
Preceded by Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme
2015 		Incumbent
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