Shireen Mazari

Dr Shireen Mehrunnisa Mazari is a very strong and well educated woman, a professor, and a very bold Pakistani politician, commonly known by the name as Shireen Mazari. She is the daughter of a bureaucrat and a politician Ashiq Muhammad Khan Mazari. Born on 26 April 1966 in Lahore, Pakistan.

Mazari attended the London School of Economics and Political Science where she gained a B.Sc.(Hons), followed by double M.Sc. in Military Science and Political science from the same institution. Mazari then traveled to the United States where she gained a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Her PH.D. dissertation contained studies on military history, geostrategy, and the foreign policy of Pakistan.

Mazari formerly was an Associate Professor and then Chairperson of the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. She was removed from this position in May 2008 before the end of her contract in August 2009, supposedly at the insistence of the United States, a point Mazari maintains despite United States denials. Former Foreign Secretary Ambassador Tanvir Ahmad Khan replaced her.