About Ms Saira Afzal Tarar
Born : July 6, 1966 Hafizabad city, District Hafizabad
Marital Status: Married , three children
Academic Qualifications:
MSc Home Economics (Housing and Interior Designing) 1991 from College of Home Economics Lahore
Matriculation: Queen Mary School 1983
One year diploma course in Islamic Studies at Al Huda International 2003
Professional Career:
Worked as a teacher for two years at Pakistan Islamia Secondry School Sharja UAE 1998 & 1999
Member National Assembly of Pakistan from NA 102 Hafizabad from 2013-2018 (Elected member)
Member National Assembly of Pakistan from NA 102 Hafizabad from 2008-2013 (Elected member)
Membership of National Assembly Committees 2008-2013
- Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
- Standing Committee on Local Government
- Assembly Standing Committee on Housing
- Special Committee of National Assembly on Millennium Developmental Goals
- Member Woman Caucus of National Assembly of Pakistan
(ex) Chairperson Chief Minster (Punjab)’s Task Force on Teachers Training
(ex)Chairperson Chief Ministers Initiatives on Education
Member Pakistan Press Council (Opposition Representative)
Member Board of Directors Punjab Education Foundation
Member Board of Directors Queen Mary College Lahore
Awards
- USAID Award on World Tuberculosis Day 2016
- On World No Tobacco Day 2015 by World Health Organization (WHO)
- On 6thAnnual Research Day 2015 by Dow University of Health Sciences,
- Rawalpindi Islamabad Bureau’s Journalists Association, the Best Coordination Award, 2015
Party Affiliation
Pakistan Muslim League (PML) N
Party Position
Member Central Working Committee (PML) N
President PML (N) District Hafizabad
Official Visits:
Directly elected Women Parliamentarians delegation to USA
Parliamentarians’ delegation to UK
Speaker National Assembly Delegation to Turkey
International Conferences Attended
- World Health Assembly, Geneva Switzerland, 2016
- Health Leaders, Ministerial Forum Harvard Loeb Houses Cambridge, MA, 2016
- 68th Session o f the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization, 2015
- Sixty Second Session of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean from 5-8 October, 2015 in Kuwait.
- Fifth Meeting of SAAR at India 6th to 8th April, 2015
- International Inter-Ministerial Conference on South-South Cooperation for Investing I Demographic Dividend in the post ICPD and MDG Development framework 25th to 28th November, 2014
- World Bank sponsored delegation to Indonesia for education reforms 2010
- Dialogue on Education Reform In Pakistan-Harvard University , July 15-16, 2011
- South Asia Consultation on Parliamentarians for Equity and Girl’s Education” 20-22 September 2011 Kathmandu, Nepal under the auspices of UNICEF
- Dialogue on Private Education in Lahore, Pakistan the 19th -20th of December 2011. The Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) in collaboration with Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Pomona College.
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