Kalsoom Perveen

She was elected to the Senate of Pakistan on a reserved seat for women as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) in the 2003 Senate election.^[3]

She ran for the seat of Senate in 2009 Pakistani Senate election as an independent candidate after she was not given ticket by PML (Q)^[3] and was successfully re-elected.^[4][5] She later joined Balochistan National Party Awami (BNPA).^[3]

In January 2015, she quit BNPA to join the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) and also resigned from her seat in the Senate.^[3]

She was re-elected to the Senate of Pakistan on a reserved seat for women as a candidate of PML-N in the 2015 Pakistani Senate election.^[6][7] She also served as president of the Chess Federation of Pakistan.^[8]

Perveen died of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan in a hospital in Islamabad on 21 December 2020.^[9]