[5][6] Raza completed her undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Karachi, receiving her Master's degree in Physiology in 1991.
Three years later, Raza was elected as the Joint Secretary of the People's Student Federation.
In 1990, after the right-wing conservative alliance, the Islamic Democratic Alliance (IDA), formed a government, she was arrested and incarcerated for almost a month for her political activities, based upon allegations of a double murder and possession of illegal arms.
[7] Politically she was a protege of Benazir Bhutto, who picked her for the party's "reserved women's seat" in the Sindh Assembly for the 2009 elections.
[7] In 1991, she married Ghulam Qadir, a former politician and then a general manager for Shahzeb Pharmaceutical Company.