ambassador to the United States between 2011 and 2013, has been a member of the Senate since 2015. She is also a former journalist and prominent human rights activist.
According to reports, Awami National Party (ANP) and Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) have assured support to PPP.
Rehman is expected to receive 25 votes in the election.
In 2018, Rehman become the country’s first opposition leader in the upper house, a sign of the increasing role women have in the nation’s legislature.
She has closely worked with slain Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, killed in a bomb attack at an election meeting in 2007. Bhutto was the country’s first woman prime minister.
