Post: | First Lady |
Body: | Pakistan |
Insignia: | Flag of Pakistan.svg |
Insigniasize: | 150px |
Insigniacaption: | Flag of Pakistan |
Incumbent: | Aseefa Bhutto (daughter of Asif Zardari) Nusrat Shehbaz (wife of Shehbaz Sharif) Tehmina Durrani (wife of Shehbaz Sharif) |
Incumbentsince: | 16 April 2024 (Aseefa) 4 March 2024 (Nusrat and Tehmina) |
Termlength: | 5 years |
Inaugural: | Naheed Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan |
First ladies and gentlemen of Pakistan (Urdu: {{nq|خاتون اول يا مرد اول پاكستان) is an unofficial title traditionally given, often interchangeably, to the wife or husband of the president and prime minister of Pakistan. The current position First Ladies of Pakistan is Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, daughter of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the current president Asif Ali Zardari. Along with their spouse and children, the First Lady or Gentleman is a member of the First Family of Pakistan.
No. | Portrait | Consorts | Head of state | Term begins | Term ends | |
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1 | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | 15 August 1947 | 6 February 1952 | |||
2 | Philip Mountbatten | Queen Elizabeth II | 6 February 1952 | 23 March 1956 |
No. | Portrait | First Lady | Governor General | Term begins | Term ends | Description | |
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1 | Position vacant | 15 August 1947 – | 11 September 1948 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah's second wife, Rattanbai Jinnah, died in 1929. He never remarried.[1] | |||
– | Position vacant | 11 September 1948 | 14 September 1948 | No Governor General during this time. | |||
2 | Shah Bano | Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin | 14 September 1948 | 17 October 1951 | |||
3 | Badshah Begum | Sir Ghulam Muhammad | 17 October 1951 | 7 August 1955 | [2] | ||
4 | Nahid Mirza | 7 August 1955 | 23 March 1956 | Born Nahid Afghamy in Iran.[3] Nahid married Mirza in July 1953. She died on January 25, 2019. |
No. | Portrait | First Lady | Head of state | Tenure begins | Tenure ends | Notes |
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1 | Nahid Mirza | Iskandar Mirza | 23 March 1956 | 27 October 1958 | Nahid, who was Iranian-born and of Iranian Kurdish descent was a cousin of fellow First Lady Nusrat Bhutto. Nahid died on January 25, 2019.[4] | |
2 | Begum Ayub Khan | Ayub Khan | 27 October 1958 | 25 March 1969 | [5] | |
3 | Name unavailable | Mohammad Afzal Cheema(Acting) | 11 June 1962 | 29 November 1963 | ||
4 | Syeda Selima Begum | Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry(Acting) | 29 November 1963 | 12 June 1965 | [6] | |
5 | Begum Ayub Khan | Ayub Khan(2nd Tenure) | 12 June 1965 | 25 March 1969 | ||
– | Position vacant | Yahya Khan | 25 March 1969 | 20 December 1971 | Yahya Khan never married. His mistress, General Rani, became a powerful figure within his regime. | |
6 | Shireen Amir Begum | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | 20 December 1971 | 13 August 1973 | ||
Nusrat Bhutto | Nusrat Bhutto was born in Iran into the Ispahani family, a prominent Iranian Kurdish family. She was the cousin of former First Lady Nahid Mirza. The wife of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother of Benazir Bhutto, she founded the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy in 1981 in opposition to oppose Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's regime. | |||||
7 | Name unavailable | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry | 14 August 1973 | 20 April 1978 | ||
8 | Sheikh Anwarul Haq(Acting) | 20 April 1978 | 7 May 1978 | |||
9 | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry | 7 May 1978 | 16 September 1978 | |||
10 |