Malik Mehr un Nisa Afridi

She requested party ticket to contest in the 2013 General Election from NA-18. However she was hospitalized and died.

Mehrun Nisa Afridi suffered from Parkinson's disease since 2006 her health deteriorated slowly as the disease progressed. She was hospitalized on February 26, 2013 and was diagnosed with Meningitis which resulted in renal failure and finally she died from Cardiac Arrest on March 4, 2013 at around 1:20am.

She was elected the President of Women's Wing (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) in 1985 and remained till February 2, 2010 when she was too ill to carry on with her duties.

She became a member of the National Assembly again in 2008.

She attended a meeting of the Council of the Socialist International held at Geneva, Switzerland, 29–30 June 2007 with Benazir Bibi.

She attended Socialist International Women held at Athens, Greece, 27–28 January 2006.

On January 25, 2004 she arranged PPP Ladies Convention N.W.F.P at Nishter Hall Peshawar under the President-ship of Mr Jehangir Bader. The other Honorable Guest were Central Members of the party Mr Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Begum Ruqqia Khanum Soomro, Miss Fozia Habib, Begum Samina Razaq, Miss Nargis Faiz Malik, Khwaja Muhammad Khan Hoti, Mr Mirza Khan other Male & Female Provencial office bearers.

She attended Social International's Casablanca Council – Peace, Security, Development held at Casablanca, Morocco, 31 May-1 June 2002 with Benazir Bibi.

She became the member of the Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party from October, 2001 to 2008.

She attended Social International's 50th Anniversary held at Lisbon, Portugal, 29–30 June 2001 with Benazir Bibi.

Martial law was imposed once again in 1999 by General Musharraf. She was once again struggling for her party by organizing protests. She worked very hard to organize the party in those turbulent times.

She declined to be appointed as a judge in 1996 so that she could pursue her political career as the president of Pakistan People Parties Women Wing (KP).

In 1996 when People's Party again came to power she was an adviser and a confidant of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

As MNA she went on an official visit to Hungary, on 22 October 1989.

As MNA she went on an official visit to Geneva, Switzerland on 14 November 1989.

As MNA she went on an official visit to the United States on 24 November 1989.

She became a member of Pakistan's Lower House of Parliament in 1988. She served the nation till the Parliament was dissolved by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.

She started her career as a lawyer from 1979 and continued till 2006. She had the license to practice law at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and High Court of Pakistan. During the martial law of Zia Ul Haq she actively defended fellow political workers from persecution.

She was arrested in 1978 by the military regime of Zia-ul-Haq and spent two years and nine months in prison given "C" Class where she was mentally tortured. She was kept in a cell with a mad woman who used to deprive her of sleep by making loud noise. She was asked by the martial law authorities to remove the PPP flags from her car and residence. She did not obey the orders of a dictator. She suffered a heart attack in prison. She was later kept in house arrest and her house was declared a sub-jail.

She was sent to a Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD) summit now called Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in which she traveled to Turkey on April 20, 1977 from there to Iran on April 22, 1977 and finally to USSR on April 27, 1977.

In 1977 martial law was imposed by General Zia ul Haq. She was appointed President of Bhutto Release Committee N.W.F.P formed by Begum Nusrat Bhutto. She organized and led many protests to release Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

She was elected Provincial General Secretary of PPP Women Wing by a two-thirds majority in the inter-party election held on August 16, 1976 which were supervised by Begum Nusrat Bhutto.

She was appointed chief organizer of the Peoples Student Federation (Women Wing) in 1973 the notification to this effect was issued by Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Due to her team's hard work, the Peoples Student Federation won the first University Union Election and Mr. Amir Muhammad Khan Apalo was elected the first Peshawar university president. She organized PSF in all departments of University of Peshawar, Gomal University and many other girls degree colleges and high schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA.

She joined PPP on April 24, 1968 soon after the party was founded by Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. In 1970 when Hayat Sherpao started PPP Women Wing she was appointed president of Gunj Ward. She organized Gunj Ward by going door to door which was very difficult at that time in conservative Pushtun society.

She was member of the Pakistan Girl Guides Association and attended various camps in West Pakistan and East Pakistan (Now Bangladesh). During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 she was a volunteer and was deputed at Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar to aid the wounded of air raids by India.

She received her primary and secondary education at GHSS Begum Shahabuddin School. She completed her matriculation in 1960. Then she went to Government Frontier College for Higher Secondary Education and completed her Faculty of Arts (F.A) in 1963. She completed her Bachelor of Arts (B.A) degree in 1965 and Bachelor of Education (B.ed) in 1974 from College of Education University of Peshawar. She earned a Masters of Arts Degree (M.A) Pashto held in 1970 and Master of Arts (M.A) Psychology from University of Peshawar. She went to Law College Peshawar and earned a degree in Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) in 1978.

Malik Mehrun Nisa Afridi (Urdu: ملک مہرالنساءآفریدی; Pashto: مالك مَہرُالنساءاپريدي; born April 7, 1943 – March 4, 2013) was a Pakistani Lawyer and a Politician. She was twice member of the Lower house of Parliament. She was elected on Reserved Seats for Women in the 8th National Assembly from 1988 to 1990 and again in the 13th National Assembly from 2008 to 2013. She joined Pakistan Peoples Party on April 24, 1968 as a Student Leader and stayed loyal to her party till her death on March 4, 2013. She was a successful Lawyer well respected by her peers. She was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party.