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Shehrbano "Sherry" Rehman or Shahrbano Rahman (Urdu: شہر بانو رحمان )(born. December 21, 1960) is a senior Pakistani politician, journalist, parliamentarian and the member of the Pakistan Peoples Party. She was appointed Minister for Information & Broadcasting by Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Gilani and sworn in by President Pervez Musharraf on March 31, 2008.

Early life and education

Shahrbano Rehman was born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan on December 21, 1960. Rehman's father, the late Hassanally A. Rahman worked for years in public education and law, and her mother was the first woman vice president of the State Bank of Pakistan. “I was exposed early on to the idea of women working and public life,” she says. “There was always an expectation to go out and earn your own living.”

She has studied art history and politics at Smith College and the University of Sussex.

Journalism

Sherry Rehman has been a senior journalist for twenty years. She served as the editor of Pakistan’s prestigious newsmagazine, Herald, for ten years. She has wide experience in both print and broadcast media. Rehman’s bold and creative journalistic style earned her the reputation of the top journalist of the country. She was hounded by the Jam Sadiq Sindh government for publishing a cover story on the plunder of his Home Minister. She also anchored a television show on current affairs in 1999. Rehman regularly writes for national and international newspapers and newsmagazines.

Marriage

Sherry Rehman is married to renowned banker Nadeem Hussain. Mr Hussain is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Tameer Microfinance Bank. He spent 27 years with Citigroup before initiating Tameer. The Microfinance Bank distinguishes itself from other similar institutions by being one of the first nation-wide, private sector, non-NGO transformed, commercially sustainable micro-finance institutions in Pakistan. Tameer serves low-income, salaried, self-employed and micro entrepreneurs with a range of financial products designed to allow them to grow their businesses and produce significant economic multiplier effects throughout the local economies.

Civil Society Profile

In civil society, Sherry Rehman has been an active proponent for the provision of better access to health and educational resources, particularly for women and children from the lower-income sections of Pakistani society. In this respect, Rehman is the Chairman of the Lady Dufferin Foundation Trust, the largest non-profit provider of women and children's subsidized health-care in the province of Sindh. In her seven-year term as Chair, Rehman assisted in the construction of a state-of the art seven-story hospital building at the 100-year old Dufferin Hospital. She has also served on the board of several educational institutions, namely the University of Sindh and The International School, Karachi as well as the Mohatta Palace Gallery Trust.^[1] Rehman is also one of the founding members of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Currently, Rehman lives between Islamabad, where apart from fulfilling her parliamentary and Party obligations, she heads the Jinnah Institute, and Karachi, where she is the director of a multi-media design firm and founder of a heritage trust, the Indus Foundation. The Jinnah Institute is a registered non-profit organization that seeks to strengthen democratic and secular values in the Pakistani community both at home and in the UK through the creation of public space for its objectives. As its Founding Chair, Sherry Rehman has held two-week-long parliamentary orientation workshops in Pakistan for women legislators in 2003, supported by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.