Begum Kulsoom Saifullah Khan
| Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 December 1924 (age 93) Karak, Kohat, British India |
| Died | 26 January 2015 (aged 90) |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Occupation | politician, businesswoman |
Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan (7 December 1924 – 26 January 2015) was a Pakistani businesswoman, politician, industrialist and a social worker. She was chairperson of the Saif Group of companies from 1964 to 1990. Begum Kulsum remained a parliamentarian and a federal minister in Pakistan in the 1980s.
Kulsum was born in 1924 in Karak area of Kohat District in a family of Khattak Pashtun tribe. She was a sister of two eminent Pakistani polititians of the area Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak and Yusuf Khattak. Kulsum was married to a then well-known businessman of Ghaznikhel Lakki Marwat, Khan Saifullah Khan. She had five sons with him: Anwar Saifullah Khan, Salim Saifullah Khan, Humayun Saifullah Khan, Javed Saifullah Khan and the famous cardiologist Iqbal Saifullah Khan. She went ahead and developed her late husband's business to the extent that in 2017 it is one of the leading business conglomerates of Pakistan in the fields of textiles, power generation, oil and gas exploration and telecommunications industries.
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