Sharmila Farooqi is a Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i politician who served as advisor to the Chief Minister of Sindh

Chief Minister of Sindh

The Chief Minister of Sindh is elected by the Provincial Assembly of Sindh to serve as the head of the provincial government in Sindh, Pakistan. The current Chief Minister is Qaim Ali Shah, who belongs to Pakistan Peoples Party...

 from September 2008 - January 31, 2011, specializing in information and media. She is the maternal grand daughter of N M Uqaili

N M Uqaili

N. M. Uqaili was the Finance Minister of Pakistan and chairman of Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation . He headed the privatisation commission during the Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq government to study the state of the State enterprises and served as the Governor of State Bank of Pakistan...

 and daughter of Usman Farooqi, who was a bureaucrat and former chairman of Pakistan Steel Mills

Pakistan Steel Mills

The Pakistan Steel Mills, PSM, is the state-owned producer of long rolled steel and heavy iron products in Karachi, Sindh Province of Pakistan. The Pakistan Steel Mill is the country's largest industrial undertaking having a production capacity of 1.1 million tonnes of steel...

. She is the niece of Salman Farooqi, a well-known confidante of President Asif Ali Zardari

Asif Ali Zardari

Asif Ali Zardari is the 11th and current President of Pakistan and the Co-Chairman of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party . He is also the widower of Benazir Bhutto, who served two nonconsecutive terms as Prime Minister....

. Sharmila holds an MBA and a Master's degree in Law.

See also

• N M Uqaili
  N M Uqaili
  N. M. Uqaili was the Finance Minister of Pakistan and chairman of Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation . He headed the privatisation commission during the Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq government to study the state of the State enterprises and served as the Governor of State Bank of Pakistan...
  
  
• Allah Baksh Sarshar Uqaili
  Allah Baksh Sarshar Uqaili
  -Early life, education:Allah Baksh was born on January 21 in 1907 in the city of Karachi. After his matriculation, Allah Bux went to the D.J Science College earning a B.A. with Honors...