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| name = Mahtab Akbar Rashdi<br />
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| office = Member of the [[Provincial Assembly of Sindh]]<br />
| term_start = June 2013<br />
| term_end = 28 May 2018<br />
|constituency= Reserved seat for women<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|3|3|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Naudero]]<br />
|nationality = Pakistani<br />
|party = [[Pakistan Muslim League (F)]]<br />
|spouse= {{marriage|Akbar Rashidi|1981}}<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1015016|title=‘New’ faces in Sindh PA|first=the|last=Newspaper|date=31 May 2013|publisher=}}</ref><br />
|children=2<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/773392|title=Interview: Rejuvenating the youth|first=From|last=InpaperMagazine|date=23 December 2012|publisher=}}</ref><br />
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'''Mahtab Akbar Rashdi''' ([[née]] Channa) is a Pakistani politician and actress who had been a Member of the [[Provincial Assembly of Sindh]], from June 2013 to May 2018.<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
She was born on 3 March 1947 in [[Naudero]].<ref name="pas/2013">{{cite web|title=Welcome to the Website of Provincial Assembly of Sindh|url=http://www.pas.gov.pk/index.php/members/profile/en/31/389|website=www.pas.gov.pk|accessdate=8 March 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820161832/http://www.pas.gov.pk/index.php/members/profile/en/31/389|archivedate=20 August 2017}}</ref> She earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Government Girls College Hyderabad. She received the Bachelor of Education and the degree of Master of Arts in Political Science, both from the [[University of Sindh]]. She also did Master of Arts in Political Science from [[University of Massachusetts]] on the [[Fulbright Scholarship]].<ref name="pas/2013" /><ref name="auto" /><br />
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In 1981, she married Akbar Rashidi, a Bureaucrat. Later, she herself joined bureaucracy and started heading several departments including education, information and culture.<ref name="auto"/><br />
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In 2004, [[President of Pakistan]] awarded her the [[Pride of Performance]] for her services.<ref name="auto1"/><br />
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==Acting career==<br />
She started her career as an actress and featured in many Pakistani dramas.<ref name="auto"/><br />
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==Political career==<br />
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She was elected to the [[Provincial Assembly of Sindh]] as a candidate of [[Pakistan Muslim League (F)]] on a reserved seat for women in [[2013 Pakistani general election]].<ref>{{cite news|title=PML-N secures maximum number of reserved seats in NA|url=https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/05/28/pml-n-secures-maximum-number-of-reserved-seats-in-na/|accessdate=6 February 2018|work=www.pakistantoday.com.pk|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103061614/https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/05/28/pml-n-secures-maximum-number-of-reserved-seats-in-na/|archivedate=3 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=2013 Sindh Assembly women notification|url=https://ecp.gov.pk/Documents/Downloads/General%20Election%202013/Reserved%20Seats%20Notification/Reserved%20Seats%20in%20Sindh.pdf|publisher=Election Commission of Pakistan|accessdate=8 March 2018|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127124711/https://www.ecp.gov.pk/Documents/Downloads/General%20Election%202013/Reserved%20Seats%20Notification/Reserved%20Seats%20in%20Sindh.pdf|archivedate=27 January 2018}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:1947 births]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani actor-politicians]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Pakistani actresses]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani civil servants]]<br />
[[Category:Sindh MPAs 2013–2018]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistan Muslim League (F) politicians]]<br />
[[Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences alumni]]<br />
[[Category:University of Sindh alumni]]<br />
[[Category:People from Larkana District]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Pride of Performance]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Pakistani women politicians]]<br />
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