Pakistani-origin Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the newly appointed chair of the ruling Conservative party, was on Thursday made a Minister without portfolio, the first Muslim woman to serve in a British cabinet.
39-year-old Baroness Warsi is a leading campaigner for awareness and stronger legislation on issues like forced marriages, female genital mutilation and the chewing of Khat.
Ms. Warsi, born in Yorkshire town of Dewsbury, is an unelected member of the House of Lords.
Ms. Warsi, daughter of a Pakistani bus driver, who went on to set up a bed manufacturing company, began legal practice some 15 years ago.
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Ms. Warsi, who will be the first Muslim woman to sit in the U.K. cabinet, has been politically involved from her early college days when she was elected as the Vice President of the Students Union at Dewsbury College.
She was a member of Cameron’s shadow cabinet, a former vice-Chairman of the conservative party and adviser to Michael Howard.
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