- published: 02 May 2012
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Yasmin Qureshi (born 5 July 1963) is a British-Pakistani Labour Party politician and a barrister practicing criminal law. She was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton South East in the May 2010 general election.
Qureshi was born in Gujrat, Pakistan and moved to Britain when she was nine. Her father was an engineer and they lived in Watford.
She attended the Polytechnic of the South Bank (now London South Bank University) and obtained a BA (Hons) Law degree and completed her Barrister-at-Law examinations at the Council of Legal Education. She obtained a Master of Laws at University College London.
At the age of 16 she joined the Labour Party and became active in local politics.
She stood, unsuccessfully, for Labour in the London constituency of Brent East in 2005. She has worked as a human rights advisor to the former London mayor Ken Livingstone and previously headed the criminal legal section of the UN Mission in Kosovo. Qureshi previously chaired the Human Rights and Civil Liberties Working Group of the Association of Muslim Lawyers and was President of the Pakistan Club (UK).
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