Sadia Danish

Sadia Danish (سعدیہ دانش) is a Pakistani politician. After serving in party positions within the Pakistan People's Party, she was elected to one of the reserved women's seats of the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly in 2009 and served as Minister of Information and Tourism. In 2023, she was unanimously elected as deputy speaker of the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, becoming the first woman elected to the post.

Biography
Sadia Danish is a native of Gilgit. She joined the Pakistan People's Party, later serving as the party's secretary of information and as a provincial president of their women's wing. In the 2009 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election, she was the head of the campaign of the women's wing.

She was elected for the Pakistan People's Party as a reserved women's seat member of the first Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly in 2009, remaining there until 2014. During her first term as MLA, she served as Gilgit-Baltistan's Minister for Information and Tourism from 2009 until 2014. She was a member of National Commission on the Status of Women, having been the Gilgit Baltistan member in 2013. She returned to the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly in 2020.

On 17 July 2023, speaker Nazir Ahmed announced that Danish was unanimously elected as the Assembly's deputy speaker, as the sole nominee for the post on behalf of the ruling coalition; there was no nomination from any of the other MLAs, including the opposition. She is the first woman elected to the post, with The Nation calling it a "landmark development". After becoming deputy speaker, she announced her intention to focus on women empowerment in the province.