First Ladies and Gentlemen of Pakistan

First Ladies and Gentlemen of Pakistan (Urdu: 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. Samina Alvi, wife of President Arif Alvi, is the First Lady of Pakistan[1] and Bushra Maneka, wife of Prime Minister Imran Khan, is the other First Lady of Pakistan.[2] Along with their spouse and children, the First Lady or Gentleman is a member of the First Family of Pakistan.

First Lady of Pakistan
Flag of Pakistan
Incumbent
Samina Alvi
Bushra Bibi
since 9 September 2018 (Samina)
18 August 2018 (Bushra)
Term length5 years
Inaugural holderNaheed Begum
Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
FormationMarch 23, 1956 (1956-03-23)

Consorts, First Ladies and First Gentlemen

List of Consorts (Monarchs of Pakistan – Position Abolished in 1956)
No. Portrait Consorts Head of State Term Begins Term Ends
1 Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon King George VI 15 August 1947 6 February 1952
2 Philip Mountbatten Queen Elizabeth II 6 February 1952 23 March 1956

List of First Ladies (Governor Generals of Pakistan – Position Abolished in 1956)
No. Portrait First Lady Governor General Term Begins Term Ends
1 Position vacant Muhammad Ali Jinnah 15 August 1947 – 11 September 1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah's second wife, Rattanbai Jinnah, died in 1929. He never remarried.[3]
2 Shah Bano Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin 14 September 1948 17 October 1951
3 Badshah Begum Sir Ghulam Muhammad 17 October 1951 7 August 1955 [4]
4 Nahid Mirza Iskandar Mirza 7 August 1955 23 March 1956 Born Nahid Afghamy in Iran.[5] Nahid married Mirza in July 1953.[5] She died in January 2019.[6]

List of First Ladies and Gentlemen of Pakistan (Head of State – President of Pakistan)
no. Portrait First Lady Head of State Tenure Begins Tenure Ends Notes
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.[5] Nahid died on January 23, 2019.[6]
2 Name unavailable Ayub Khan 27 October 1958 25 March 1969
3 Name unavailable Yahya Khan 25 March 1969 20 December 1971 Khan's mistress, General Rani, became a powerful figure within his regime.
4 Nusrat Bhutto Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 20 December 1971 13 August 1973 Nusrat Bhutto was born in Iran into the Ispahani family, a prominent Iranian Kurdish family.[5] She was the cousin of former First Lady Nahid Mirza.[5] 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.
5 Name unavailable Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry 14 August 1973 16 September 1978
6 Shafiq Jahan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq 16 September 1978 17 August 1988 Born in Uganda to a family of Indian origin before immigrating to Pakistan.
7 Begum Shamim Khan Ghulam Ishaq Khan 17 August 1988 18 July 1993 Begum Shamim Khan died on July 26, 2019, in Peshawar at the age of 83.[7][8]
8 Name unavailable Farooq Leghari 14 November 1993 2 December 1997
9 Shamim Akhtar Muhammad Rafiq Tarar 1 January 1998 20 June 2001
10 Sehba Musharraf Pervez Musharraf 20 June 2001 18 August 2008
- Position vacant Asif Ali Zardari 9 September 2008 9 September 2013 Zardari's wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, had been assassinated in 2007.
11 Begum Mehmooda Hussain Mamnoon Hussain 9 September 2013 8 September 2018
12 Samina Alvi Arif Alvi 9 September 2018 Present [1]

Spouse of the Prime Minister of Pakistan
No. Portrait First Lady/Gentleman Prime Minister Term Begins Terms Ends Notes
1 Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan Liaquat Ali Khan 14 August 1947 16 October 1951 Later served as the Governor of Sindh from 1973 to 1976.
2 Viqar un Nisa Noon Feroz Khan Noon 16 December 1957 7 October 1958 Born Victoria in Austria, she married Feroz Khan Noon in 1945.
3 Name unavailable Yahya Khan 25 March 1969 20 December 1971
4 Nusrat Bhutto Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 20 December 1971 5 July 1977 Bhutto, the mother of Benazir Bhutto and matriarch of the Bhutto family, founded the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy in 1981 in opposition to Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's regime. She led the Pakistan People's Party during the 1980s and was elected to parliament twice.[9] Nusrat Bhutto died on October 23, 2011.[9][10][11][12]
– Position vacant 5 July 1977 24 March 1985 No prime minister or first lady during this time. The office of prime minister was abolished by the Zia regime.
5 Begum Junejo Muhammad Khan Junejo 24 March 1985 29 May 1988 Begum Junejo died in Karachi on July 13, 2003, at the age of 60.[13] Her funeral was attended by thousands of people.[13] During his political career, The Independent described Prime Minister Junejo as a "strict disciplinarian and a conservative Muslim who kept his wife at his village home and never allowed her to join him in public."[14]
– Position vacant 29 May 1988 2 December 1988 No Prime Minister during this time.
6 Asif Ali Zardari Benazir Bhutto 2 December 1988 6 August 1990
7 Kulsoom Nawaz Nawaz Sharif 6 November 1990 18 July 1993 [15]
8 Azra Sarfraz Sajjad Wasim Sajjad 18 July 1993 19 October 1993 [16]
9 Asif Ali Zardari Benazir Bhutto 18 October 1993 5 November 1996
10 Name unavailable Malik Meraj Khalid 5 November 1996 17 February 1997 Khalid was married.[17]
11 Kulsoom Nawaz Nawaz Sharif 17 February 1997 12 October 1999 [15]
– Position vacant 12 October 1999 23 November 2002 No Prime Minister during this time.
12 Sehba Musharraf Pervez Musharraf 20 June 2001 18 August 2008 [18]
13 Fauzia Gillani Yousuf Raza Gillani 25 March 2008 19 June 2012 [19]
14 Nusrat Pervaiz Ashraf Raja Pervaiz Ashraf 22 June 2012 25 March 2013 [20]
15 Kulsoom Nawaz Nawaz Sharif 5 June 2013 28 July 2017
16 Samina Shahid Abbasi Shahid Khaqan Abbasi 1 August 2017 31 May 2018
17 Bushra Bibi Imran Khan 18 August 2018 Present Bushra Bibi is reportedly the country's first first lady to wear a facial veil.[21] Bibi and Imran Khan married in February 2018, just a few months before he became prime minister, following their divorces from their previous spouses.[22][23][2]

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