First ladies and gentlemen of Pakistan

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Incumbent
Aseefa Bhutto (daughter of Asif Zardari)
Nusrat Shehbaz (wife of Shehbaz Sharif)
Tehmina Durrani (wife of Shehbaz Sharif)

since 16 April 2024 (Aseefa)
4 March 2024 (Nusrat and Tehmina)

Term length| 5 years
Inaugural holder| Naheed Begum
Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan

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. The current position First Ladies of Pakistan is Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, daughter of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the current president Asif Ali Zardari. Along with their spouse and children, the First Lady or Gentleman is a member of the First Family of Pakistan.

## Consorts, first ladies and first gentlemen

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### List of consorts (monarchs of Pakistan – position abolished in 1956)

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No.  | Portrait  | Consorts  | Head of state | Term begins  | Term ends

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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)

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No.  | Portrait  | First Lady  | Governor General | Term begins  | Term ends  | Description

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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.[1]
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 11 September 1948  | 14 September 1948  | No Governor General during this time.
2  |  | Shah Bano  | Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin | 14 September 1948  | 17 October 1951  |
3  |  | Badshah Begum  | Sir Ghulam Muhammad | 17 October 1951  | 7 August 1955  | [2]
4  |  | Nahid Mirza | Iskandar Mirza | 7 August 1955  | 23 March 1956  | Born Nahid Afghamy in Iran.[3] Nahid married Mirza in July 1953.[3] She died on January 25, 2019.[4]

### List of first ladies and gentlemen of Pakistan (head of state – president of Pakistan)

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No.  | Portrait  | First Lady  | Head of state  | Tenure begins  | Tenure ends  | Notes

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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.[3] Nahid died on January 25, 2019.[4]
2  |  | Begum Ayub Khan  | Ayub Khan | 27 October 1958  | 25 March 1969  | [5]
3  |  | Name unavailable | Mohammad Afzal Cheema

(Acting)

| 11 June 1962  | 29 November 1963  |
4  |  | Syeda Selima Begum  | Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry

(Acting)

| 29 November 1963  | 12 June 1965  | [6]
5  |  | Begum Ayub Khan  | Ayub Khan

(2nd Tenure)

| 12 June 1965  | 25 March 1969  |
–  |  | Position vacant | Yahya Khan | 25 March 1969  | 20 December 1971  | Yahya Khan never married. His mistress, General Rani, became a powerful figure within his regime.
6  |  | Shireen Amir Begum  | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | 20 December 1971  | 13 August 1973  |
| Nusrat Bhutto | Nusrat Bhutto was born in Iran into the Ispahani family, a prominent Iranian Kurdish family.[3] She was the cousin of former First Lady Nahid Mirza.[3] 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.
7  |  | Name unavailable | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry | 14 August 1973  | 20 April 1978  |
8  |  | Sheikh Anwarul Haq

(Acting)

| 20 April 1978  | 7 May 1978  |
9  |  | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry | 7 May 1978  | 16 September 1978  |
10  |  | 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.
11  |  | 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]
12  |  | Azra Sarfraz Sajjad | Wasim Sajjad

(Acting)

| 18 July 1993  | 14 November 1993  | [9]
13  |  | Name unavailable | Farooq Leghari | 14 November 1993  | 2 December 1997  |
14  |  | Azra Sarfraz Sajjad | Wasim Sajjad

(Acting)

| 2 December 1997  | 1 January 1998  | [9]
15  |  | Shamim Akhtar  | Muhammad Rafiq Tarar | 1 January 1998  | 20 June 2001  | Tarrar's wife died on 11 August 2020.[10]
16  |  | Sehba Musharraf  | Pervez Musharraf | 20 June 2001  | 18 August 2008  | [11]
17  |  | Khadijah Soomro  | Muhammad Mian Soomro

(Acting)

| 18 August 2008  | 9 September 2008  | [12]
–  |  | Position vacant | Asif Ali Zardari | 9 September 2008  | 9 September 2013  | Zardari's wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, had been assassinated in 2007.
18  |  | Begum Mehmooda Hussain  | Mamnoon Hussain | 9 September 2013  | 9 September 2018  | [13]
19  |  | Samina Alvi | Arif Alvi | 9 September 2018  | 10 March 2024  | [14]
20  |  | Aseefa Bhutto Zardari | Asif Ali Zardari | 16 April 2024  | Incumbent | [15]

### Spouse of the prime minister of Pakistan

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No.  | Portrait  | First Lady/Gentleman  | Prime Minister | Term begins  | Terms ends  | Notes

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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.
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 16 October 1951  | 17 October 1951  | No Prime Minister during this time.
2  |  | Shah Bano  | Khawaja Nazimuddin | 17 October 1951  | 17 April 1953  |
3  |  | Hamida Ali | Mohammad Ali Bogra | 17 April 1953  | 12 August 1955  | Bogra was married twice. His first marriage from Hamida Mohammad Ali who is the former member of national assembly of Pakistan while his second marriage is from Aliya Begum, a Labanese national.[16]
| Aliya Begum
4  |  | Name unavailable | Chaudhry Muhammad Ali | 12 August 1955  | 12 September 1956  |
5  |  | Position vacant | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy | 12 September 1956  | 17 October 1957  | Suharwardy was also married twice. His first spouse Begum Niaz Fatima died in 1922 from whom he married in 1920[17] while his second spouse Vera Alexandrovna was a Russian actress of Polish descent from whom he married in 1940 but later divorced in 1951.
6  |  | Begum Hailma  | I. I. Chundrigar | 17 October 1957  | 16 December 1957  | Chundrigar was married to Begum Halima. He had five children with her.[18]
7  |  | Viqar un Nisa Noon | Feroz Khan Noon | 16 December 1957  | 7 October 1958  | Born Victoria in Austria, she married Feroz Khan Noon in 1945.
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 7 October 1958  | 7 December 1971  | No prime minister or first lady during this time after 1958 Pakistani coup d'état.
8  |  | Name unavailable | Nurul Amin | 7 December 1971  | 20 December 1971  |
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 20 December 1971  | 14 August 1973  | No Prime Minister during this time.
9  |  | Shireen Amir Begum  | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | 14 August 1973  | 5 July 1977  |
| Nusrat Bhutto | 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.[19] Nusrat Bhutto died on October 23, 2011.[19][20][21][22]
–  |  | 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.
10  |  | 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.[23] Her funeral was attended by thousands of people.[23] 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."[24]
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 29 May 1988  | 2 December 1988  | No Prime Minister during this time.
11  |  | Asif Ali Zardari | Benazir Bhutto | 2 December 1988  | 6 August 1990  |
12  |  | Name unavailable | Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi

(caretaker)

| 6 August 1990  | 6 November 1990  | Jatoi was first Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was married from whom he has two sons Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi and Arif Mustafa Jatoi.
13  |  | Kulsoom Nawaz | Nawaz Sharif | 6 November 1990  | 18 April 1993  | [25]
14  |  | Name unavailable | Balakh Sher Mazari

(caretaker)

| 18 April 1993  | 26 May 1993  |
–  |  | Kulsoom Nawaz | Nawaz Sharif | 26 May 1993  | 18 July 1993  | Mazari's tenure as caretaker prime minister ended abruptly on 26 May 1993 when the Supreme Court revoked the presidential order and reinstated Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister.[26]
15  |  | Lilo Elizabeth Richter  | Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi

(caretaker)

| 18 July 1993  | 18 October 1993  | [27]
16  |  | Asif Ali Zardari | Benazir Bhutto

(2nd Tenure)

| 18 October 1993  | 5 November 1996  |
17  |  | Name unavailable | Malik Meraj Khalid

(caretaker)

| 5 November 1996  | 17 February 1997  | Khalid was married.[28]
18  |  | Kulsoom Nawaz | Nawaz Sharif

(2nd Tenure)

| 17 February 1997  | 12 October 1999  | [25]
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 12 October 1999  | 23 November 2002  | No Prime Minister during this time.
19  |  | Name unavailable | Zafarullah Khan Jamal | 23 November 2002  | 26 June 2004  |
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 26 June 2004  | 30 June 2004  | No Prime Minister during this time.
20  |  | Name unavailable | Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain | 30 June 2004  | 23 August 2004  | Hussain is married and has three children including Chaudhry Salik Hussain.[29]
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 23 August 2004  | 28 August 2004  | No Prime Minister during this time.
21  |  | Rukhsana Aziz  | Shaukat Aziz | 28 August 2004  | 15 November 2007  | [30]
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 15 November 2007  | 16 November 2007  | No Prime Minister during this time.
22  |  | Khadijah Soomro  | Muhammad Mian Soomro

(caretaker)

| 16 November 2007  | 24 March 2008  | [12]
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 24 March 2008  | 25 March 2008  | No Prime Minister during this time.
23  |  | Fauzia Gillani | Yousuf Raza Gillani | 25 March 2008  | 19 June 2012  | [31]
24  |  | Nusrat Pervaiz Ashraf | Raja Pervaiz Ashraf | 22 June 2012  | 25 March 2013  | [32]
25  |  | Name unavailable | Mir Hazar Khan Khoso

(caretaker)

| 25 March 2013  | 5 June 2013  |
26  |  | Kulsoom Nawaz | Nawaz Sharif

(3rd Tenure)

| 5 June 2013  | 28 July 2017  |
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 28 July 2017  | 1 August 2017  | No Prime Minister during this time.
27  |  | Samina Shahid Abbasi  | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi | 1 August 2017  | 31 May 2018  |
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 31 May 2018  | 1 June 2018  | No Prime Minister during this time.
28  |  | Name unavailable | Nasirul Mulk

(caretaker)

| 1 June 2018  | 18 August 2018  | Mulk is married.[33]
29  |  | Bushra Bibi | Imran Khan | 18 August 2018  | 10 April 2022  | Bushra Bibi is reportedly the country's first first lady to wear a facial veil.[34] Bibi and Imran Khan married in February 2018, just a few months before he became prime minister, following their divorces from their previous spouses.[35][36][37]
–  |  | Position vacant |  | 10 April 2022  | 11 April 2022  | No Prime Minister during this time.
30  |  | Nusrat Shehbaz  | Shehbaz Sharif | 11 April 2022  | 13 August 2023  |
| Tehmina Durrani
31  |  | Name unavailable | Anwar ul Haq Kakar

(caretaker)

| 14 August 2023  | 4 March 2024  |
32  |  | Nusrat Shehbaz  | Shehbaz Sharif

(2nd Tenure)

| 4 March 2024  | Present |
| Tehmina Durrani

## See also

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* Family of head of state and government in Pakistan

## References

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