Profile of Fauzia Wahab

Fauzia Wahab was born in 1956. She was married in 1978 to Wahab Siddiqui, a journalist and TV anchor.

Personal Life:

She was the eldest of four children. She got married in 1978 with Wahab Siddiqui, a journalist and TV anchorman in political talk shows in later years on Pakistan Television.

Wahab had four children. Fauzia Wahab acted in Haseena Moin’s drama serial ‘Kohar’ aired in 1991-92.

In February 1993, Wahab Siddiqui died of a massive heart attack and her life took a new turn. She then re-married prominent cardiologist Dr Athar Hussein.

Political career:

In 1994, the then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto nominated Fauzia Wahab to become the Information Secretary of women’s wing of the PPP in Sindh, a position Fauzia held till early 2002.

After the dissolution of the PPP government in November 1996, general elections were held in February 1997 in which she was nominated to contest the elections on NA-193, as a PPP candidate.

The PPP lost the elections and was confined to the opposition benches in the subsequent National Assembly.