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First ladies and gentlemen of Pakistan

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First Lady of Pakistan
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Incumbent Samina Alvi Bushra Bibi since 9 September 2018 (Samina) 18 August 2018 (Bushra)
Term length	5 years
Inaugural holder	Naheed Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
Formation	March 23, 1956 (68 years ago) (1956-03-23)

First Ladies and Gentlemen of Pakistan (Urdu: خاتون اول يا مرد اول پاكستان) is an unofficial title traditionally given, often interchangably, to the wife or husband of the President and Prime MinisterofPakistan. Samina Alvi, wife of President Arif Alvi, is the First Lady of Pakistan^[1] and Bushra Maneka, wife of Prime Minister Imran Khan, is the other First Lady of Pakistan.^[2] Along with their spouse and children, the First Lady or Gentleman is a member of the First Family of Pakistan.

Consorts, First Ladies and First Gentlemen

List of Consorts (Monarchs of Pakistan – Position Abolished in 1956)

No.	Portrait	Consorts	Head of State	Term Begins	Term Ends
1		Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon	King George VI	15 August 1947	6 February 1952
2	File:Prince Philip March 2015 (cropped).jpg	Philip Mountbatten	Queen Elizabeth II	6 February 1952	23 March 1956

List of First Ladies (Governor Generals of Pakistan – Position Abolished in 1956)

List of First Ladies and Gentlemen of Pakistan (Head of State – President of Pakistan)

no.	Portrait	First Lady	Head of State	Tenure Begins	Tenure Ends	Notes
1		Begum Nahid Mirza	Iskandar Mirza	23 March 1956	27 October 1958	Nahid Iranian-born and of Kurdish descent.[4] Cousin of First Lady Nusrat Bhutto, who was also originally from Iran.[4] Nahid died on January 23, 2019.[5]
2		Name unavailable	Ayub Khan	27 October 1958	25 March 1969
3		Name unavailable	Yahya Khan	25 March 1969	20 December 1971	Khan's mistress, General Rani, became a powerful figure within his regime.
4		Nusrat Bhutto	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto	20 December 1971	13 August 1973	Nusrat Bhutto was born in Iran into the Ispahani family.[4] She was the cousin of former First Lady Begum Nahid Mirza.[4]
5		Name unavailable	Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry	14 August 1973	16 September 1978
6		Shafiq Jahan	Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq	16 September 1978	17 August 1988	Born in Uganda before immigrating to Pakistan.
7		Begum Shamim Khan	Ghulam Ishaq Khan	17 August 1988	18 July 1993	Begum Shamim Khan died on July 26, 2019, in Peshawar at the age of 83.[6][7]
8		Name unavailable	Farooq Leghari	14 November 1993	2 December 1997
9		Shamim Akhtar	Muhammad Rafiq Tarar	1 January 1998	20 June 2001
10		Sehba Musharraf	Pervez Musharraf	20 June 2001	18 August 2008
11		Position vacant	Asif Ali Zardari	9 September 2008	9 September 2013	Zardari's wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, had been assassinated in 2007.
12		Begum Mehmooda Hussain	Mamnoon Hussain	9 September 2013	8 September 2018
13		Samina Alvi	Arif Alvi	9 September 2018	Present	[1]

Spouse of the Prime Minister of Pakistan

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