TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Kirshna Kumari Kolhi from Pakistan’s Sindh province has become the first-ever Hindu Dalit woman Senator in the Muslim-majority country, according to a media report on Sunday.
Kolhi, 39, from Thar is a member of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari-led Pakistan People’s Party. She won the election for the reserved seat for women from Sindh province. Her election represents a major milestone for women and minority rights in Pakistan.
Earlier, Pakistan People’s Party had elected first Hindu woman named Ratna Bhagwandas Chawla as a senator. Kolhi belongs to a remote village in Nagarparkar district of Thar in Sindh province.
Born to a poor peasant, Jugno Kolhi, in February 1979, Kolhi and her family members spent nearly three years in a private jail owned by the landlord of Kunri of Umerkot district. She was a Class 3 student at the time when held captive.
She was married to Lalchand at the age of 16, when she was studying in Class 9. However, she pursued her studies and in 2013 she did masters in sociology from the Sindh University. She had joined the PPP as a social activist along with her brother, who was later elected as Chairman of Union Council Berano.
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