Syeda Razia Faiz

[1][2] Faiz was born on 18 April 1936 into a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds from the village of Talibpur in Murshidabad.

Her father, Syed Badrudduja, was a mayor of Kolkata and a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and India's Lok Sabha.

Meanwhile, her sister Syeda Sakina Islam, was among the 30 nominated/selected members of the reserved women seats (a quota for the winning party which holds the parliamentary majority) of the same national parliament.

[3] Faiz was elected to Pakistan National Assembly in the 1960s under President Ayub Khan,[4] representing the country on a number of delegations overseas.

[3] In 1989, she was appointed as the minister for women and social welfare[1] Later, she served as the vice president of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party until her death.