Mobarik was born in Glasgow on 16 October 1957 to a Pakistani family originally from Mian Channu, Khanewal District, Pakistan which emigrated to Scotland in the early 1950s.

Mobarik held this position until serving a two-year term as Chairman of CBI Scotland between 2011 and 2013.

Mobarik has spent much of her career building relations between Scotland and Pakistan and then later with the rest of the UK.

In 2008, Mobarik was appointed chair of the Pakistan Britain Trade & Investment Forum (PBTIF).

Mobarik rebranded the PBTIF; this council has both the support of the UK and Pakistan government and is a vehicle to increase bilateral trade and investment in both countries.

[1] In the European Parliament Mobarik has worked on bringing awareness to the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar.

As part of this work, Mobarik visited the Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh in April 2018.

Mobarik also spoke at the European Parliament calling for EU countries to step up their action to end early forced marriage.