KARACHI – Hindu woman from Thar in Sindh province has been nominated byPakistan People’s Party to contest for a general Senate seat, a mediareport said today.

If Krishna Kumari from Nagarparkar district wins the election, she will bethe first Hindu woman to become a Senator in the Muslim-majority Pakistan.

Kumari is a Kolhi woman from the family of freedom fighter Rooplo Kolhi,who had waged a war against the British colonialist forces when they hadattacked Sindh in 1857.

She had joined the PPP as a social activist along with her brother, who waslater elected as Chairman of Union Council Berano, Samaa news channelreported.

Kumari said she had made all the necessary documentation to file hernomination papers.

Born to a poor peasant Jugno Kolhi in 1979, Kumari and her family membersspent nearly three years in a private jail owned by a landlord.

Kumari was married to Lalchand at the age of 16, when she was studying in9th grade. However, she pursued her studies and in 2013 she did masters insociology from the Sindh University, the channel said.

She also actively participated and worked for the rights of downtroddenpeople of marginalised communities living in Thar and other areas.

The PPP has provided several women leaders to Pakistan including BenazirBhutto, the first woman prime minister; Hina Rabbani Khar, the first womanforeign minister and Fehmida Mirza, the first woman speaker of the NationalAssembly.