7. Sassui Palijo

Sassui Palijo is a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh.

Sassui belongs to Pakistan Peoples Party. She is the only directly elected female assembly member in Sindh out of 168 assembly members. At present she is serving as Minister for Culture in Sindh cabinet led by Syed Qaim Ali Shah.

Born on 10 January 1976, Sassui is a double graduate, BA from University of Sindh and undergraduate degree in law from London.

Sassui Palijo's father, Ghulam Qadir Palijo, has been a MPA twice and is still active in politics. Her mother, Akhtar Baloch, was the first female Pakistani political worker to be arrested under General Ayub's martial law. During the anti One-Unit movement at the age of 19 she was imprisoned for a year for staging hunger strike against military rule. Her grandmother late Jiji Zarina Baloch was a well known writer, folk singer, teacher, actress, novelist and a political activist.