Teachings and services to education After returning from Kuwait, she helped established a school for girls in her village with the support of her father because in that time in such traditional conservative Baloch society did not allowed women to go to schools. While teaching at school, she also taught
English literature at the
Balochistan University. In 1993, her services were recognised by the
Government of Pakistan and honoured her with
Pride of Performance Award for Education by the
President of Pakistan. She has authored many publications include Papers on Baloch Embroidery and Poverty alleviation. Her political activism started after joining the centre-right
Pakistan Muslim League (PML) led by Prime minister
Nawaz Sharif in 1988; but defected to
dissident group in 2000. She successfully contested in
general elections held in 2002, securing 44,177 voted from her
NA–27 constituency. In 2002, she was appointed as the
minister of
Minister of Education (MoEd) and took oath from President
Pervez Musharraf as part of the Prime Minister
Zafarullah Jamali's cabinet. She would later given extension and would continue served in the cabinet of Prime Minister
Shaukat Aziz. Approved by
President Pervez Musharraf, the programme was in making the madrassa (seminaries) integrated with modern education reforms. Jalal personally had approved the
₨. 225–500 million from the government for
2003–04; all funding were jointly released by the
US AID. The education ministry did not made no movement on seminary reforms and registration, with no related meetings scheduled and new no policy guidelines issued to government departments. In 2009, educationist, Saleem Ali wrote a thesis in his book, "''Islam and Education: Conflict and Conformity in Pakistan's Madrassas''", that " indeed all private and public schools, are still subject to government approval, whereas the madrassa programmes at present have no government oversight." According to the Education ministry, the major reason for this failure was the view of the madrassas that the project was part of an
American agenda. Others maintained that there were "high level interests" which had hampered the process. She lost the 2008 general election while securing only 33,564 votes and losing to
Yaqoob Bizanjo of
Balochistan National Party (Awami).
2013 general election In 2013, Zubaida Jalal endorsed
PML(N) candidate
Nawaz Sharif's bid for premiership. In a meeting with
Nawaz Sharif, Jalal announced to join the PML-N, reposing full confidence in the leadership of Nawaz Sharif.
2018 general election Zubaida Jalal Joined BAP and successfully contested the elections. Following the PTI government coalition with BAP, she was nominated as the BAP representative in the Federal Cabinet. She was inducted as
Minister for Defence Production on 20 August 2018. After the success of the
No-confidence motion against Imran Khan Cabinet was dissolved and she resigned alongside Imran Khan from the ministry. ==Personal life==