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Biography
Hamida Khuhro PhD (died 12 February 2017) was a Pakistani politician and historian who twice served as Sindh's Minister for Education and also served as a Professor of History at the University of Sindh.
Family and education
Khuhro was the daughter of Muhammad Ayub Khuhro, a former Chief Minister of Sindh. She had a PhD in South Asian History from the University of London and also attended the Universities of Karachi, Cambridge and Oxford. She was a Muslim and was married.
Career
Academia
As an academic historian, Khuhro taught at Karachi and Oxford universities before becoming a professor at Sindh University.
Political
Khuhro left Sindh University to concentrate on politics and writing. She joined the Sindh National Alliance in 1987 and in 1993 became a member of the Pakistan Muslim League. She had been appointed as Sindh's Minister for Education and Literacy in 1990.
In 2004, Khuhro was again appointed as Minister for Education.
Books
- Sind Through the Centuries Karachi: OUP 1994
- The Making of Modern Sindh: British Policy and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century OUP 1999
- Khuhro, Hamida, Mohammed Ayub Khuhro: a life of courage in politics. Lahore: Ferozsons, 1998
- Karachi Megacity of Our Times. edited by Hamida Khuhro and Anwer Mooraj. Karachi: OUP 2010 (2nd edition)