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{{short description|Pakistani politician}}
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| office = [[Ministry of Defence Production (Pakistan)|Minister for Defence Production]]
| president = [[Mamnoon Hussain]]<br />[[Arif Alvi]]
| primeminister = [[Imran Khan]]
| term_start = 20 August 2018
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| predecessor = Naeem Khalid Lodhi (caretaker)
| order2 = [[Minister for Education (Pakistan)|Minister for Education]]
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| term_start2 = 24 November 2002
| term_end2 = 15 November 2007
| president2 = [[Pervez Musharraf]]
| primeminister2 = [[Zafarullah Khan Jamali]]
| predecessor2 = [[Tehmina Daultana]]
| successor2 = [[Ahsan Iqbal]]
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'''Zubaida Jalal''' ([[Urdu]]: زبيدہ جلال خان; born 31 August 1959), is a [[Pakistani]] politician who serves as the [[Ministry of Defence Production (Pakistan)|Minister for Defence Production of Pakistan]]. Also a [[teacher]], [[libertarian]] and [[social activist]] by occupation, she assumed the office of Defence Production Minister on 20 August 2018.

After successfully contesting in [[2002 Pakistani general elections|general elections]] held in 2002 on a [[Pakistan Muslim League (Q)|PML(Q)]] platform, she came in national prominence and public fame as a leading woman minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister [[Shaukat Aziz]]. From 2002 to 2007, she was the [[Minister for Education (Pakistan)|minister]] [[Ministry of Education (Pakistan)| of education]] (MoEd) and unsuccessfully contested for [[2008 Pakistani general elections|general elections]] held in 2008 on a PML(Q) platform.

After a five-year brief break from the national politics, she joined the [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|Pakistan Muslim League]] and but stepped down in favour of Kiran Haider, who successfully retained her seat in 2013 [[2013 Pakistani general elections|general elections]], although she retains herself as a woman leader of the [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|Pakistan Muslim League]].

==Social and political activism==

===Teachings and services to education===
After returning from Kuwait, she helped established a school for girls in her village with the support of her father because in that time in such traditional conservative Baloch society did not allowed women to go to schools. While teaching at school, she also taught [[English literature]] at the [[University of Balochistan|Balochistan University]]. In 1993, her services were recognised by the [[Government of Pakistan]] and honoured her with [[Pride of Performance|Pride of Performance Award]] for Education by the [[President of Pakistan]]. She has authored many publications include Papers on Baloch Embroidery and Poverty alleviation.

Her political activism started after joining the centre-right [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|Pakistan Muslim League]] (PML) led by Prime minister [[Nawaz Sharif]] in 1988; but defected to [[Pakistan Muslim League (Q)|dissident group]] in 2000. She successfully contested in [[2002 Pakistani general elections|general elections]] held in 2002, securing 44,177 voted from her [[Constituencies of Pakistan|NA–27]] constituency.<ref name="Express Tribune Election Cell (ExTEC)">{{cite news|title=Zubaida Jalal|url=http://elections.tribune.com.pk/candidate/zubaida-jalal/|access-date=12 July 2013|newspaper=Express Tribune Election Cell (ExTEC)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130713024119/http://elections.tribune.com.pk/candidate/zubaida-jalal/|archive-date=13 July 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 2002, she was appointed as the [[Minister for Education (Pakistan)|minister]] of [[Ministry of Education (Pakistan)|Minister of Education]] (MoEd) and took oath from President [[Pervez Musharraf]] as part of the Prime Minister [[Zafarullah Khan Jamali|Zafarullah Jamali]]'s cabinet.<ref name="Dawn area studies, 2002">{{cite news|last=Ihtasham ul Haque|title=Jamali, cabinet take oath: PPP, PML-N abstain from ceremony|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2002/11/24/top1.htm|access-date=12 July 2013|newspaper=Dawn area studies, 2002|date=24 November 2002}}</ref> She would later given extension and would continue served in the cabinet of Prime Minister [[Shaukat Aziz]].<ref name="Dawn area studies, 2002"/>

===Education ministry===

In 2004, Zubaida Jalal announced that "all [[Madarsa|religious seminaries]] will now be involved in all mainstream education programmes."<ref name="Area studies, daily times">{{cite news|last=Waqar Gillani|title='Madrassa students will be brought into mainstream'|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-5-2004_pg7_54|access-date=12 July 2013|newspaper=Area studies, daily times|date=23 May 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060301220709/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-5-2004_pg7_54|archive-date=1 March 2006|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Approved by [[President of Pakistan|President]] [[Pervez Musharraf]], the programme was in making the madrassa (seminaries) integrated with modern education reforms.<ref name="Daily times, 2004">{{cite news|last=Waqar Gillani|title=Masood looks for ways to implement madrassa reforms|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_30-7-2004_pg7_26|access-date=12 July 2013|newspaper=Daily times, 2004|date=30 July 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113191007/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_30-7-2004_pg7_26|archive-date=13 November 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Jalal personally had approved the [[Pakistan Rupee|₨.]] 225–500 million from the government for [[fiscal year|2003–04]]; all funding were jointly released by the [[US AID]].<ref name="Daily times, 2004"/> Reforms were set to be carried out to change the school curriculum and many revival updates, deregulation of the [[Pakistani textbooks controversy|textbooks]] were part of the program which was oversaw by the Zubaida Jalal.<ref name="Daily times, 2004"/>

Despite initiation and modernisation, the programme did not move an inch, according to the media reports.<ref name="Daily Times, Pakistan 2005">{{cite news|last=Gillani|first=Waqar|title=2004 – education issues, problems and reforms|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_7-1-2005_pg7_30|access-date=12 July 2013|newspaper=Daily Times, Pakistan 2005|date=7 January 2005|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020152145/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_7-1-2005_pg7_30|archive-date=20 October 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The education ministry did not made no movement on seminary reforms and registration, with no related meetings scheduled and new no policy guidelines issued to government departments.<ref name="Daily Times, Pakistan 2005"/> In a media report published by [[Daily Times (Pakistan)|''Daily Times'']], the Education ministry failed in making the ''madrassa'' (seminaries) reforms successful in 2004.<ref name="Daily Times, Pakistan 2005"/> They asked the government to reopen ''madrassa'' registration for more people to benefit from the Madrassa Reforms Package.<ref name="Daily Times, Pakistan 2005"/> Approximately, [[Pakistan Rupee|₨.]] 6 billion were set-aside for the reforms' first three years and the government gave an additional [[Pakistan Rupee|₨.]] 225 million to four provinces, but the provinces failed to use the funds.<ref name="Daily Times, Pakistan 2005"/>

According to the officials worked under Zubaida Jalal's administration confirmed that no new policy on madrassa reforms had been prepared and the old policy was still intact.<ref name="Daily, August 14, 2005">{{cite news|last=Waqqar Gillani.|title=No progress on seminary reform|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-8-2005_pg1_3|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130713024121/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-8-2005_pg1_3|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 July 2013|access-date=12 July 2013|newspaper=Daily, 14 August 2005|date=14 August 2005}}</ref> In 2009, educationist, Saleem Ali wrote a thesis in his book, "''Islam and Education: Conflict and Conformity in Pakistan's Madrassas''", that " indeed all private and public schools, are still subject to government approval, whereas the madrassa programmes at present have no government oversight."<ref name="Daily times review"/> The government's inability to impose the program and lack of interest in topics further diminished.<ref name="Daily times review"/> The powerful clerics threatened the government upon which the federal education minister Zubaida Jalal immediately clarified that no chapter or verses relating to [[jihad]] or Holy War or shahadat (martyrdom) had been deleted from textbook and that the particular verse referring to jihad had only been shifted from the biology textbook for intermediate students.<ref name="Daily times review">{{cite book|last=Ali|first=Saleem H|title=Islam and Education: Conflict and Conformity in Pakistan's Madrassas|year=2009|publisher=Daily times review|location=Amherst, Mass.|pages=214|chapter=Madrassa versus enlightenment}}</ref>

According to the Education ministry, the major reason for this failure was the view of the madrassas that the project was part of an [[New World Order (conspiracy theory)|American agenda]].<ref name="Friday, July 30, 2004">{{cite news|last=W. Gillani|title=Masood looks for ways to implement madrassa reforms|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_30-7-2004_pg7_26|access-date=12 July 2013|newspaper=Friday, 30 July 2004|date=30 July 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113191007/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_30-7-2004_pg7_26|archive-date=13 November 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Others maintained that there were "high level interests" which had hampered the process.<ref name="Daily, August 14, 2005"/> Furthermore, majority of the funds were lost during a tug of war between the [[Ministry of Interior (Pakistan)|Interior ministry]], [[Ministry of Religious Affairs (Pakistan)|Religious ministry]] and [[Ministry of Education (Pakistan)|Education ministry]] which Zubaida Jalal led. This squabble was eventually resolved by a personal intervention of [[President of Pakistan|President]] [[Pervez Musharraf]] in 2007.<ref name="Daily, August 14, 2005"/>

===2008 general election campaign===

In 2008, Jalal decided not to obtain the [[Pakistan Muslim League (Q)|PML(Q)]] ticket, and instead contested in [[2008 Pakistani general elections|2008 general elections]] as an [[Independent (politician)|independent]] candidate, from the [[NA-272 (Kech-cum-Gwadar)|NA–272]] constituency.<ref name="Dawn, 2008">{{cite news|last=Amir Wasim|title=Heavyweights knocked out|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2008/02/19/top8.htm|access-date=12 July 2013|newspaper=Dawn, 2008|date=19 February 2008}}</ref> She lost the 2008 general election while securing only 33,564 votes and losing to [[Yaqoob Bizanjo]] of [[Balochistan National Party (Awami)]].<ref name="Pakistan Times, 2008">{{cite news|last=KASHIF ABBASI/ZAIN-UL-ISLAM|title=Can female candidates equally win on general seats?|url=http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/04/16/city/islamabad/can-female-candidates-equally-win-on-general-seats/|access-date=12 July 2013|newspaper=Pakistan Times, 2008|date=16 April 2013}}</ref>

===2013 general election===

In 2013, Zubaida Jalal endorsed [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|PML(N)]] candidate [[Nawaz Sharif]]'s bid for premiership. In a meeting with [[Nawaz Sharif]], Jalal announced to join the PML-N, reposing full confidence in the leadership of Nawaz Sharif.<ref name="Business recorder">{{cite news|last=Saleem|first=Muhammad|title=Zubaida Jalal from Balochistan joins PML-N|url=http://www.brecorder.com/general-news/172/1168140/|access-date=12 July 2013|newspaper=Business recorder|date=28 March 2013}}</ref>

===2018 general election===

Zubaida Jalal Joined BAP and successfully contested the elections. Following the PTI government coalition with BAP, she was nominated as the BAP representative in the Federal Cabinet. She was inducted as [[Ministry of Defence Production (Pakistan)|Minister for Defence Production]] on 20 August 2018.

==Personal life==

===Political controversies===

Soon after the [[2008 Pakistani general elections|general elections]] in 2008, the [[Federal Investigation Agency|FIA]] launched an investigation on Zubaida Jalal over the financial scam. The FIA investigations were launched under the directives of Prime Minister [[Yousaf Raza Gillani]] who felt that "the role of the minister of that time Zubaida Jalal needs to be investigated without which the objectives of the whole exercise will remain unmet." Zubaida Jalal has strongly denied the allegations of corruption against her. In 2009, the FIA investigations were wrapped

In 2010 publications edited by Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDT), Zubaida Jalal is a second richest politician from [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]], having declared the total assets worth [[Pakistan Rupee|₨.]] 57.87
million.<ref name="Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development And Transparency – PILDAT">{{cite web|last=13th National Assembly of P akistan|title=Three Richest Politicians from Balochistan|url=http://www.pildat.org/Publications/publication/democracy&LegStr/HowRicharePakistaniMNAsAugust2010.pdf|work=13th National Assembly of Pakistan|publisher=Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development And Transparency – PILDAT|access-date=12 July 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514080525/http://www.pildat.org/Publications/publication/democracy%26LegStr/HowRicharePakistaniMNAsAugust2010.pdf|archive-date=14 May 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

===Political philosophy===

Zubaida Jalal was touted as General Pervez Musharraf's most enlightened face and was one of the notable minister under Musharraf's regime. In 2008, she publicly endorsed the support for [[President of Pakistan|President]] [[Pervez Musharraf]] during the times of [[Movement to impeach Pervez Musharraf|impeachment movement]] was in effect against the former president.<ref name="Associate Press of Pakistan"/> In a television interview, Zubaida Jalal said that as a bold and brave leader, Pervez Musharraf will live in Pakistan and for Pakistan.<ref name="Associate Press of Pakistan"/> While talking to APP this afternoon after the Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation, Begum Jalal said that to the extent she knows Musharraf, he is not likely to leave the field empty but will continue his struggle for an enlightened, peaceful and progressive Pakistan.<ref name="Associate Press of Pakistan">{{cite news|last=APP|title=Musharraf will live in and for Pakistan; says Zubaida Jalal|url=http://app.com.pk/video/preview.php?id=4894|access-date=12 July 2013|newspaper=Associate Press of Pakistan|date=18 August 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911130738/http://app.com.pk/video/preview.php?id=4894|archive-date=11 September 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

She has strongly advocated for the support of liberal philosophy, "[[Enlightened Moderation]]" and noted that "Extremism is a barrier to development and an enlightened moderation is the key to globalization."<ref name="John Wiley & Sons Inc">{{cite book|last=Stewart Bell -|title=The Martyr's Oath The Apprenticeship of a Homegrown Terrorist, Epub Edition.|year=2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons Inc|isbn=978-0470739044|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v17bfLK9qJgC&q=zubaida+jalal+enlightened&pg=PT76}}</ref>

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