LONDON, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the Conservative Party’s chairwoman, called on PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif at his Park Lane residence on Monday and reiterated her party’s stress on promoting bilateral relations between Pakistan and the UK. The Baroness became the first Muslim woman to join the British cabinet when she was named minister without portfolio by UK Prime Minister David Cameron in his new coalition government following the May 6 parliamentary elections.
The Baroness became the first Muslim woman to join the British cabinet when she was named minister without portfolio by UK Prime Minister David Cameron in his new coalition government following the May 6 parliamentary elections.
Sharif felicitated Baroness Warsi both on her appointment as the chairwoman of the Tory party and her elevation to a Cabinet post and said the UK Pakistani Diaspora was proud of her achievement.
The Baroness who was accompanied by her husband Iftikhar Azam has been a high-profile champion of Muslim women’s rights and was recently voted the country’s most powerful female Muslim.
Sharif, currently on a private visit to London, also appreciated the charity work of Baroness Warsi in villages near Gujjar Khan from where parents emigrated to England in the 1960′s.
She runs five vocational training centres for orphaned in the villages through a women’s charity and in 2008 David Cameron visited Gujjar Khan with her.
Sharif said women like Baroness Warsi were a fine example in the UK Muslim community who by sheer dint of hard work had been able to achieve high position in the British party politics.
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