Ayesha Raza Farooq

Ayesha Raza Farooq is a member of Ramday Arain family.^[3] Her husband, Raza Farooq Ramday, served as the Advocate General of Punjab from June 2009 to August 2009.^[1][4] He died in 2010 due to cardiac arrest.^[5] His brother-in-law, Muhammad Aurangzeb, is the current finance minister of Pakistan.^[3]

She earned master of business administration from Lahore University of Management Sciences in 1995 and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Punjab in 2013.^[6]

She was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) on reserved seats for women from Punjab in the 2013 Pakistani general election.^[6][7][8] In November 2013, she was appointed as Prime Minister's focal person on polio eradication.^[9] She resigned from National Assembly in March 2015.^[10][11]

She was elected to the Senate of Pakistan on reserved seat for women as a candidate of PML-N in the 2015 Pakistani Senate election.^{[12][13][14][15]}

In March 2018, she received Sitara-i-Imtiaz from the Government of Pakistan for her role in polio eradication.^[16]