Nasreen Jalil

Nasreen Jalil (born 22 February 1944) is a Pakistani politician and a senior leader of the MQM-P. She served as a member of the Senate of Pakistan from Sindh from 2012 to 2018. Previously, she served as the Deputy Mayor of Karachi.

Early life

Jalil was born in Lahore on 22 February 1944, then part of British India, her family were from the United Provinces but had settled in Karachi. Her father, Zafrul Ahsan Lari was the deputy commissioner of Lahore at the time of the British Indian Empire in 1947, and later he worked as an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer.

In the Senate election held on 2 March 2012, Nasreen Jalil was elected as a senator from Sindh.

Nasreen Jalil is the deputy convener of Muttahida Qaumi Movement Khalid Maqbool Group's (MQM-P) Coordinate Committee.

She is the chairperson of Senate's Standing Committee on Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics, P&D and Privatization.