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Farzana Raja is a Pakistani politician who served as chair of the Benazir Income Support Programme and has been a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. Farzana Raja has retired from politics in 2013. She has made a YouTube channel to spread awareness on various social issues. Farzana Raja has successfully established her real estate business in multiple states in the United States Of America and has devoted an effort to develop local communities.

Early life and education She was born in Gujar Khan on 2 January 1970. She received her early education from Government High School in Chaklala, Rawalpindi and completed her college education from Viqar-u-Nisa College in Rawalpindi before obtaining a bachelor's degree from Punjab University in 1989. She has completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Humanitarian Action and Peace building from United Nations Institute of research/Oxford Brooks University UK.

She became chairwoman of the Benazir Income Support Programme in 2008.

In 2012, she was inducted into the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani without portfolio and was give the status of a federal minister.