Bushra Gohar (Pashto: بشرا ګوهر; Urdu: بشریٰ گوہر) is a Pakistani politician and a senior leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM).
[4] Born in Swabi to a Pashtun family, Gohar studied economics at the University of Peshawar and moved to the United States where she received master's degree in human resource management from Wilmington University in 1991 followed by a postgraduate certificate in South Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
On return to Pakistan, she worked as a consultant with UNDP, USAID, and UKAid.
In 2000, Gohar became a member of the National Commission on the Status of Women, a position she retained until 2003.
[5][6] Her father, Ali Gohar Khan, was a Colonel in the Pakistan Army.