A Hindu woman from Thar in Sindh province has been nominated by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to contest for a general Senate seat, a media report said on Monday.
If Krishna Kumari from Nagarparkar district wins the election, she will be the first Hindu woman to become a Senator in the Muslim-majority Pakistan.
Kumari is a Kolhi woman from the family of freedom fighter Rooplo Kolhi, who had waged a war against the British colonialist forces when they had attacked Sindh in 1857.
She had joined the PPP as a social activist along with her brother, who was later elected as Chairman of Union Council Berano, Samaa news channel reported.
Kumari said she had made all the necessary documentation to file her nomination papers.