Nasreen Jalil
| Name: | Nasreen Jalil |
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| Tenure: | March 1997 to March 2000 | ||
| Province: | Sindh | ||
| Party: | Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) | ||
| Seat Description: | Women | ||
| Designation: | Senator |
Hailing from a respectable family of Karachi, Mrs. Nasreen Jalil was born on 22 February, 1944. Her parents, originally the inhabitants of U.P. in the pre-parti- tioned India, had migrated to Karachi and settled there even before the creation of Pakistan.
The literary and enlightened family background put her to the Adabistan-e-Soophia Lahore wherefrom she got her Primary education. She went to the United Kingdom at a very young age and was educated at the Severnake School of London for her Middle Standard education. After her return to Pakistan, she completed her secondary and higher Secondary education in Karachi from 1958 to 1962. Her interest and aptitude for learning the Occidental languages and literatures motivated her to go to Paris in 1963 and learn the French language. Thereafter she came back and did her honours in English literature from the University of Karachi iR 1966.
Mrs. Nasreen Jalil is a dynamic person who took keen interest in the extra- curricular activities during her academic career and was very active in social welfare activities at the academic institutions she attended and also at the community level. She got a commercial pilot's licence in 1966 and has also been working for "Behbood" in Karachi since 1970.
Mrs. Nasreen Jalil is one of the pioneering members of the MQM who began working for the Movement in 1988 as a political worker in its Research and Information Cell. Her commitment for Human Rights impelled her to get herself affiliated with the Human Rights Cell of the MQM for the promotion of the cause of fundamental human rights through an institutional discipline. She is Deputy Convener of the MQM Coordination Committee.
Mrs. Nasreen Jalil is a widely travelled person and has been to the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia and a number of other countries of Europe, Africa and Far Eastern Regions on academic, excursion, business, political and Parliamentary missions.
Mrs. Nasreen Jalil was elected to the Senate of Pakistan in March 1994 for a six-year term. She is Chairperson of the Functional Committee of the Senate on Human Rights and also a Member of the Senate Standing Committees on Health, Social Welfare and Special Education, Commerce and Foreign Affaris.
The literary and enlightened family background put her to the Adabistan-e-Soophia Lahore wherefrom she got her Primary education. She went to the United Kingdom at a very young age and was educated at the Severnake School of London for her Middle Standard education. After her return to Pakistan, she completed her secondary and higher Secondary education in Karachi from 1958 to 1962. Her interest and aptitude for learning the Occidental languages and literatures motivated her to go to Paris in 1963 and learn the French language. Thereafter she came back and did her honours in English literature from the University of Karachi iR 1966.
Mrs. Nasreen Jalil is a dynamic person who took keen interest in the extra- curricular activities during her academic career and was very active in social welfare activities at the academic institutions she attended and also at the community level. She got a commercial pilot's licence in 1966 and has also been working for "Behbood" in Karachi since 1970.
Mrs. Nasreen Jalil is one of the pioneering members of the MQM who began working for the Movement in 1988 as a political worker in its Research and Information Cell. Her commitment for Human Rights impelled her to get herself affiliated with the Human Rights Cell of the MQM for the promotion of the cause of fundamental human rights through an institutional discipline. She is Deputy Convener of the MQM Coordination Committee.
Mrs. Nasreen Jalil is a widely travelled person and has been to the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Canada, Saudi Arabia and a number of other countries of Europe, Africa and Far Eastern Regions on academic, excursion, business, political and Parliamentary missions.
Mrs. Nasreen Jalil was elected to the Senate of Pakistan in March 1994 for a six-year term. She is Chairperson of the Functional Committee of the Senate on Human Rights and also a Member of the Senate Standing Committees on Health, Social Welfare and Special Education, Commerce and Foreign Affaris.