Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan

Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan (Urdu: بیگم محمودہ سلیم خان; May 1913 – June 2007) was a Pakistani social worker, early political figure and a cabinet minister in West Pakistan for education during President Ayub Khan's regime.

She was the eldest daughter of the renowned Unionist Party statesman, Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan of Wah from his first wife, Begum Zubaida Khanum.

[2] After her mother's death in 1919, she was raised by her aunt and educated at Aligarh School for Muslim Women and Queen Mary's College, Lahore.

[3] who was the eldest son of an aristocrat Abdul Majid Khan Tarin, OBE.

In initial years of her married life she focussed primarily on looking after household and raising her children like any Pakistani housewife.