Honorific-Suffix: | Senator |
Office: | Caretaker Federal Minister for Human Rights, Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, States and Frontier Regions |
Term Start: | 5 May 2018 |
Term End: | 18 August 2018 |
President: | Mamnoon Hussain |
Office1: | Caretaker Federal Minister for Railways and Postal Services |
Term Start1: | 5 May 2018 |
Term End1: | 18 August 2018 |
President1: | Mamnoon Hussain |
Nationality: | Pakistan |
Birth Place: | Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan |
Children: | 3 |
Successor: | Shireen Mazari (Minister of Human Rights) |
Predecessor: | Khawaja Saad Rafique |
Successor2: | Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad (Minister of Railways) |
Office3: | Member of the Senate of Pakistan |
Term Start3: | March 2003 |
Term End3: | March 2009 |
Constituency3: | Women seat from Balochistan |
President3: | Pervaiz Musharraf |
Primeminister3: | Shaukat Aziz |
Office4: | Provincial Minister of Balochistan for Women Development |
Term Start4: | Oct 2007 |
Term End4: | April 2008 |
1Blankname4: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata4: | Mohammad Saleh Bhutani |
Term Start5: | October 1999 |
Term End5: | November 2002 |
1Blankname5: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata5: | Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal |
Roshan Khursheed Bharucha is a Pakistani politician who served as the Federal Minister for Human Rights, Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, States and Frontier Regions, Railways and Postal Services in a caretaker capacity.
Barucha's father migrated to Balochistan from Yazd, Iran while her mother is from Gujarat, India.[1]
She holds a master's degree in English from the University of Balochistan and a degree in Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Executives from PIMS Karachi which was awarded in 1993.[2]
She has served as Provincial Minister of Balochistan between 1999 and 2002.[3]
She has also served as a member of the Senate of Pakistan from March 2003 to March 2009.[4]
In 2007, she was made provincial minister of Balochistan for Social Welfare, Informal education, Human rights, Youth, Information, Population, Information Technology, Manpower training, Sports, Archives, and Culture in a caretaker capacity.[4]
In 2018, she was made Federal Minister for Human Rights, Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, States and Frontier Regions, Railways and Postal Services[5] in Mulk caretaker ministry. She is the only Parsi woman to hold federal ministries.
She hails from Quetta and is a member of the Parsi community in Pakistan.[6] She is a mother of three children Kaiwan, Sharaine, and Thrity. As well as being a grandmother to Cyrus, Shanaya, Darian, Nadia, Aaron, & Ryan. [7]