Salma Ahmed
Salma Ahmed —Eny to family and friends—was born Indira Salma Husain in Cambridge, UK. She started her business career as a young woman, and set up her first industry in 1967. The high point in her career was the remarkable success she achieved in ship breaking. It remains her proud achievement to have been the first woman ever to have done this.
Winner of the prestigious Priyadarshini award for being Pakistan's most successful woman entrepreneur in the fifty years since independence (1947-1997), Salma Ahmed is the founder-president of Pakistan Association of Women Entrepreneurs (PAWE) and was the first president of International Federation of Women Entrepreneurs (IFWE). She is also the president of the Women's Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WCCI) in Pakistan.
Salma Ahmed started public service in the 1970s when she worked with selfless zeal for the rehabilitation of displaced Pakistanis from Bangladesh. She later entered politics, and joined the All-Pakistan Muslim League in 1977. She was appointed member of the party's Central Working Committee and was MNA from 1985 to 1988.
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