In a first, Hindu woman elected to Pakistan's senate
In a historic win, Krishna Kumari Kolhi from Pakistan's Sindh province has become the first-ever Hindu Dalit woman Senator in the Muslim-majority country. Kolhi, 39, from Thar is a member of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari-led Pakistan People's Party (PPP). She won the election for the reserved seat for women from Sindh province. He win represents a major milestone for women and minority rights in Pakistan.
Kolhi joined the PPP as a social activist
Kolhi belongs to a remote village of Thar in Sindh province and had joined the PPP as a social activist along with her brother, who was later elected as Chairman of Union Council Berano. Born to a poor peasant, Jugno Kolhi, in 1979, Kolhi and her family members spent three years in a private jail owned by the landlord of Kunri of Umerkot district.
Kolhi belongs to valiant freedom fighter Rooplo Kolhi's family
Kolhi also actively participated and worked for the rights of downtrodden people of marginalized communities. Notably, she belongs to valiant freedom fighter Rooplo Kolhi's family, who had waged a war against the invading British colonialist forces when they had attacked Sindh from Nagarparkar side in 1857. Subsequently, he was arrested and hanged by the Britishers on August 22, 1858.
