Nafisa Shah

Jilani was born on 20 January 1968 in Khairpur, Sindh to Qaim Ali Shah. She has doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford. ==Political career==

Jilani served as Nazim of District Khairpur She served as chair of the National Commission for Human Development and general secretary of the Women's Parliamentary Caucus between 2008 and 2013. She also headed the National Commission for Human Development. She was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PPP on a seat reserved for women from Sindh in the 2013 Pakistani general election for the second time. She was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PPP from NA-208 (Khairpur-I) in the 2018 Pakistani general election. She received 107,978 votes and defeated Syed Ghous Ali Shah, a candidate of the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA). She was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PPP from NA-202 Khairpur-I in the 2024 Pakistani general election. She received 152,511 votes and defeated Syed Ghous Ali Shah, a candidate of the GDA. ==books==

• Honour Unmasked: Gender Violence, Law, and Power in Pakistan – 2016 • Honour and Violence: Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan. 2017 ==References==