Pakistan
Dominion of Pakistan:
- Deputy Speaker – Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz – 1947
- Member of Parliament – Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah – 1947
- Ambassador (to Netherlands) (1954) - Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
Islamic Republic of Pakistan:
- Governor (of Sindh) (1973) - Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
- Chair of Major Political Party (Pakistan Peoples Party) – Nusrat Bhutto – 1979
- Minister of Population – Dr. Attiya Inayatullah – 1980
- Prime Minister – Benazir Bhutto – 1988
- Deputy Prime Minister – Nusrat Bhutto – 1980s
- Minister of Information – Syeda Abida Hussain – 1990
- Minister of Finance – Benazir Bhutto – 1993
- Minister of Law and Human Rights – Shahida Jamil – 2002
- Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan – Fahmida Mirza – 2008
- Shahida Malik - Pakistan's first woman who holds a 2 star rank of major general, and the first woman Surgeon General of the Army.
- Haleena Iqbal - Pakistan's first traffic lieutenant and, super intendent traffic.
- Minister of Foreign Affairs – Hina Rabbani Khar – 2011
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