(PML-N). He proved himself to be a great party loyalist and Shahbaz Sharif trusts him more than anybody else in his cabinet or the PML-N.
Sanaullah was asked to resign three days after the June 17, 2014, Model Town killings and he immediately stepped down saying that he wanted to get himself cleared from the charge. A few days ago, the JIT issued a clean chit to him although the case is yet to be decided by a court of law.
Because of his unequivocal support to and staunch association with the PML-N, Sanaullah was once brutally physically tortured by what he had said the personnel of an intelligence agency. But this failed to dent his resolve to stick to his affiliation with the PML-N. He has continued to do the tough job for the Sharif brothers. He has never changed his party after he joined the PML-N, leaving the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) over two decades ago.
Dr Ayesha has 23 year experience in teaching, undertaking research and consulting assignments in social policy and development, governance, public finance and urban and regional economics and in advocacy work on social and economic issues.
She has a PhD from the University of Leeds, Britain. She has served as deputy/acting managing director of the Social Policy and Development Centre, Karachi, a non-governmental think tank. She has been a member of several task forces, committees and commissions on public finance, social sectors, poverty alleviation and institutional reforms constituted by the governments.
Dr Ayesha has represented NGOs on the management boards of a number of important organisations like the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. She has undertaken consulting assignments for different international multilateral and bilateral agencies, like UNICEF, UNDP, The World Bank, The Asian Development Bank, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She has published over 75 books, journal articles and reports. She is the PML-N member of the Punjab Assembly on special woman’s seat.