Marvi Memon

Marvi Memon
Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme
In office
25 February 2015 – 23 June 2018
President Mamnoon Hussain
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
Preceded by Enver Baig
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
1 June 2013 – 31 May 2018
In office
17 March 2008 – 23 June 2011
Constituency Reserved seat for women
Personal details
Born 1972 (age 45–46)[1][2]
Karachi, Sindh Province, Pakistan
Nationality Pakistani
Political party Pakistan Muslim League (N)
Spouse(s) Ishaq Dar
Father Nisar Memon
Alma mater London School of Economics

Marvi Memon (Urdu: ماروی میمن‬‎; born c. 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, one of 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. However, a dispute with the then Director General of the ISPR Major-General Shaukat Sultan saw her departing from ISPR.[2][2][6][9] She also worked as advisor to President of Pakistan on Media Management and on Investments.[8]

Political career

Memon joined Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) in 2007. She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 2008 general election[7] on reserved seat for women from Punjab.[2] According to the Free and Fair Election Network, she was the amongst the parliamentarians during her tenure as Member of the National Assembly who introduced the third highest number of private members' bill.[7] She is known for her hard-working style in the National Assembly.[10] She remained critic of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and attracted media attention after she released white paper against the PPP government.[2][10]

Memon resigned from the National Assembly in 2011[3][11] and left the PML-Q in protest after the party joined the PPP led-coalition government.[12]

On 2012, she launched memoir My Parliamentary Diaries, her account of everyday life as a parliamentarian.[13]

Memon joined Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) in 2012,[7] after months long rumours that she might join Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).[14][15][16][17] Reportedly, Khawaja Saad Rafique facilitated her to join PML-N after she was unable to get a top position in the PTI.[10] However she was unable to secure party's vacant reserved seat slot in the National Assembly.[18]

She ran for the seat of the National Assembly from the Constituency NA-237 (Thatta-I) in Pakistani general election, 2013, but was unsuccessful.[16][19] She received over 23,000 votes and lost the seat to a candidate of PPP.[10] 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.[20]

However, she was re-elected to the National Assembly on a reserved seat for women from Sindh.[19][21][22] Memon initially served as Prime minister’s youth wing coordinator[23] before she was appointed Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme with status of Minister of State in February 2015.[16][24][25]

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.[26] Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the new prime minister in August 2017,[27] she was re-appointed as the Minister of State in the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.[28]

In March 2018, it was reported that PML-N refused to nominate her as the party's candidate from Thatta constituency in the Pakistani general election, 2018.[10] In April 2018, she was elevated as a federal minister in the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.[29]

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.[30] 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.[31] 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.[32] She was removed from the office of chair of BISP on 23 June 2018.[33]

Personal life

She is married to the former Pakistani finance minister Ishaq Dar.[10][34][35]

Awards and honours

In March 2017, Memon received the Speaker's Democracy Award by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.[36][37]

In July 2017, she was conferred the French National Order of Merit by the French Ambassador to Pakistan in Islamabad.[38]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Ms. Marvi Memon profile". bisp.gov.pk. Benazir Income Support Programme. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Marvi Memon". DAWN.COM. 28 April 2013. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Marvi Memon". Daily Times. 29 August 2017. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Profile. Marvi Memon MNA". pncp.net. Archived from the original on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Marvi Memon". DAWN.COM. 28 April 2013. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  6. 1 2 "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.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "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.
  8. 1 2 3 "World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development". World Bank. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  9. ↑ "The journey from Hilal Road to Raiwind". Pakistan Today. 5 March 2012. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Marvi Memon's volte face on PML-N leadership reveals fissures in party". www.pakistantoday.com.pk. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  11. ↑ "Resignation of Marvi Memon accepted". DAWN.COM. 23 June 2011. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  12. ↑ "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.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ "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.
  15. ↑ "Supporting Musharraf was political blunder: Marvi Memon". DAWN.COM. 14 March 2012. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  16. 1 2 3 "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.
  17. ↑ "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.
  18. ↑ "Marvi Memon loses out on vacant PML-N seat - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  19. 1 2 "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.
  20. ↑ "2013 election result" (PDF). ECP. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  21. ↑ "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.
  22. ↑ "Women, minority seats allotted". DAWN.COM. 29 May 2013. Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  23. ↑ "Loan scheme launched in Fata". DAWN.COM. 19 January 2014. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  24. ↑ "Marvi Memon to head BISP". DAWN.COM. 26 February 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  25. ↑ "Marvi Memon appointed as BISP chairperson". Dunya News. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  26. ↑ "PM Nawaz Sharif steps down; federal cabinet stands dissolved". Daily Pakistan Global. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  27. ↑ Chaudhry, Dawn.com, Fahad (1 August 2017). "Shahid Khaqan Abbasi sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  28. ↑ 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.
  29. ↑ "Govt expands cabinet months before elections - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 27 April 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  30. ↑ "Notification" (PDF). Cabinet division. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  31. ↑ "Letter to CJP: PPPP wants Marvi to resign as BISP chief - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  32. ↑ Wasim, Amir (22 June 2018). "Caretaker PM asks president to remove Marvi Memon as BISP chairperson". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  33. ↑ Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff (23 June 2018). "Marvi removed as BISP chairperson". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  34. ↑ "Ishaq Dar has secretly married a fellow lawmaker, claims senior journalist". Daily Pakistan Global. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  35. ↑ "Marvi Memon 'secretly married Ishaq Dar for Rs1.5 billion haq meher'". Daily Pakistan Global. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  36. ↑ "Speaker's Democracy Award – inaugural winner announced". parliament.uk. 30 March 2017. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  37. ↑ "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.
  38. ↑ "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.
Political offices
Preceded by
Enver Baig		 Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme
2015		 Incumbent
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