Pakistan is poised to get its first woman speaker in Parliament. The 52-year-old Fahmida Mirza is medical school graduate and also a businesswoman. A Bhutto loyalist (her husband, Zulfikar Mirza is a close friend of Asif Zardari), Mirza has been nominated by the PPP to the top post in the 342-member lower house, or National Assembly.
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