Ayesha Raza Farooq

Ayesha Raza Farooq is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the Senate of Pakistan since March 2015. Previously she had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2013 to 2015.

Early life and education Ayesha Raza Farooq is a member of Ramday Arain family. Her husband, Raza Farooq Ramday, served as the Advocate General of Punjab from June 2009 to August 2009. He died in 2010 due to cardiac arrest. His brother-in-law, Muhammad Aurangzeb, is the current finance minister of Pakistan.

Political career 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. In November 2013, she was appointed as Prime Minister's focal person on polio eradication. She resigned from National Assembly in March 2015.

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.

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