10. Farahnaz Ispahani

Farahnaz Ispahani is a well known politician of Pakistan. She is also the wife of Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States, and is the granddaughter of Pakistan's first ambassador to the United States, Mirza Abol Hassan Ispahani.

A former journalist, She is a former Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.

Politician, Writer, Women & Minority Rights advocate, Farahnaz Ispahani is a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

She is a Pakistani politician who served as a member of Parliament and Media Advisor to the President of Pakistan.

As a member of Parliament, she focused on the issues of terrorism, human rights, minority rights and US-Pakistan relations.

Ms. Ispahani spent the formative years of her career as a print and television journalist.She is also PPP International Media Coordinator and chairperson for Pakistan Peoples Party Scholars Wing.

Her uncle, Zia Ispahani has also served as a politician and former ambassador for Pakistan. Ispahani was born in Karachi and grew up in Karachi, Dhaka and London. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, majoring in political science.