Gilani appoints Saba Khattak as member Planning Commission

First Pashtun and that also a woman Dr Saba Gul Khattak is appointed as a member of planning commission of Pakistan .

Gilani appoints Saba Khattak as member Planning Commission
ISLAMABAD : Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has approved the appointment of Saba Gul Khattak as member of the Planning Commission. She is a prominent social worker belonging to NWFP. In the Planning Commission, she will be member for social sector.

Dr Saba Gul Khattak

Dr Saba Gul Khattak is a human rights activist and has a PhD in Political Science. Dr. Khattak provides regular policy advice on women, governance and refugee issues to the government.

Currently she is the Exucutive Director of SDPI and serves on a number of national and international committees in a voluntary capacity.

Dr Khattak has undertaken research in areas like:

Gender and Security,

Trafficking of Children in Pakistan,

Forms of Child Labor in Pakistan,

Education and Child Laborers,

Food Security for Refugees,

The Rehabilitation of Refugee Affected Areas in the NWFP and Balochistan,

The effects of structural adjustment policies on women in Pakistan

and Violence aginst Women

Dr. Khattak specializes in comparative politics and her research is a political economy approach to development, feminist and political theory with a focus on state theory.

Her work is concentrates on issues of women’s economic empowerment, peace and violence, governance issues, refugee issues, and labor rights. She actively contributes to dialogues on these themes at different fora in Pakistan and abroad. Dr Khattak also delivers lectures on Gender and Development and has taught International Relations and Comparative Politics at the University of Peshawar and the University of Hawaii.

Dr. Khattak also undertakes solicited research and has recently completed work on . She has also worked on corruption issues in Pakistan and recently conducted a dialogue on the future policy options and durable solutions for Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

She regularly contributes to journals and books and has presented her work at national and international conferences.

Currently she has coauthor the book, Hazardous Home-based Work: A Story of Multi Tiered Exploitation (OUP, 2005).

Her publications include,

“Inconvenient Facts: Military regimes and women’s political representation in Pakistan”, (SDPI, 2005),

“Adversarial discourses, Analogous Objectives: Controlling Afghan Women” (Cultural Dynamics, 2004); and “Insecurity: Afghan refugee camps and politics in Pakistan” (Journal of Critical Asian Studies 2003).

you can find her articles from the following link :http://www.thenews.com.pk/editorial_arc1.asp?wn=Saba%20Gul%20Khattak