| Syeda Shehla Raza Zaidi | |
| Office: | Provincial Minister of Sindh for Women Development |
| Term Start: | 20 August 2018 |
| Term End: | 11 August 2023 |
| Office1: | Deputy Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh |
| Term Start1: | 30 May 2013 |
| Term End1: | 28 May 2018 |
| Predecessor1: | Herself |
| Term Start2: | 7 April 2008 |
| Term End2: | 19 March 2013 |
| Successor2: | Herself |
| Office3: | Acting Governor of Sindh[1] |
| Term Start3: | 9 November 2016 |
| Term End3: | 11 November 2016 |
| Predecessor3: | Ishratul Ibad |
| Successor3: | Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui |
| Office4: | Member of the Provincial Assembjly of Sindh |
| Term Start4: | 13 August 2018 |
| Term End4: | 11 August 2023 |
| Constituency4: | Reserved seat for women |
| Term Start5: | 29 May 2013 |
| Term End5: | 28 May 2018 |
| Constituency5: | Reserved seat for women |
| Term Start6: | 5 April 2008 |
| Term End6: | 20 March 2013 |
| Constituency6: | Reserved seat for women |
| Term Start7: | March 2024 |
| Term Start8: | March 2024[2] |
| Birth Date: | 8 January 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Spouse: | Ghulam Qadir |
| Children: | 2 (both deceased) |
| Party: | PPP |
| 2Blankname1: | Speaker |
| 2Namedata1: | Agha Siraj Durrani |
| 3Blankname2: | Speaker |
| 3Namedata2: | Nisar Khuhro |
| 1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata: | Syed Murad Ali Shah |
Syeda Shehla Raza Zaidi (Urdu: {{Nastaliq| سیدہ شہلا رضا زیدی) (born 15 May 1964 in Karachi, Pakistan[3]) is a Pakistan People's Party politician and Member of National Assembly of Pakistan from the Sindh province. In 2008, she was unanimously elected deputy speaker in the Thirteenth Assembly of the Sindh Assembly,[4] and re-elected in 2013 for that position in the Fourteenth Assembly.[5] [6]
Raza completed her undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Karachi, receiving her Master's degree in Physiology in 1991.[7]
Her political career began while she was attending university. In 1986, she joined the People's Students Federation, a student wing of the Pakistan People's Party, when political activities were banned. Her activism began during this period of military rule. Three years later, Raza was elected as the Joint Secretary of the People's Student Federation.
In 1990, after the right-wing conservative alliance, the Islamic Democratic Alliance (IDA), formed a government, she was arrested and incarcerated for almost a month for her political activities, based upon allegations of a double murder and possession of illegal arms. The charges were later dropped.
Politically she was a protege of Benazir Bhutto, who picked her for the party's "reserved women's seat" in the Sindh Assembly for the 2009 elections.
In 1991, she married Ghulam Qadir, a former politician and then a general manager for Shahzeb Pharmaceutical Company. Her first child, a daughter, was born in 1992; in 1994 she had a son. Both of them were killed in a traffic accident in 2005.[8] [9]