Society assumed she was finished the day her husband was killed.
She joined the Police Service of Pakistan four years after burying her husband in the same uniform.
Helena Iqbal Saeed. Quetta, Balochistan. Christian.
Her husband ASP Rizwan Khan Tareen was martyred on duty in Haripur in 1995.
She was widowed.
She was a minority woman from Pakistan's least populated province.
Every structural barrier the society could construct was already in place.
In 1999 she sat the CSS examination.
She passed.
She joined the Police Service of Pakistan four years after burying her husband in the same uniform.
First female CSS officer in the service.
She climbed every rank after that.
First female DIG.
First female AIG. April 2019.
First woman to reach flag rank in the entire history of the Police Service of Pakistan.
First AIG from Quetta.
Highest ranking female officer Pakistan has ever had in its police service.
2021. United Nations. Khartoum, Sudan.
First Pakistani woman appointed as UN Police Commissioner.
A Christian widow from Balochistan.
Representing Pakistan at the top of international peacekeeping.
She said: I never imagined myself as a trailblazer.
She did not have to imagine it.
She just kept walking forward.
Helena Iqbal Saeed.
Pakistan Zindabad. 🇵🇰
Society assumed she was finished the day her husband was killed.
She joined the Police Service of Pakistan four years after burying her husband in the same uniform.
Helena Iqbal Saeed. Quetta, Balochistan. Christian.
Her husband ASP Rizwan Khan Tareen was martyred on duty in Haripur in 1995.
She was widowed.
She was a minority woman from Pakistan's least populated province.
Every structural barrier the society could construct was already in place.
In 1999 she sat the CSS examination.
She passed.
She joined the Police Service of Pakistan four years after burying her husband in the same uniform.
First female CSS officer in the service.
She climbed every rank after that.
First female DIG.
First female AIG. April 2019.
First woman to reach flag rank in the entire history of the Police Service of Pakistan.
First AIG from Quetta.
Highest ranking female officer Pakistan has ever had in its police service.
2021. United Nations. Khartoum, Sudan.
First Pakistani woman appointed as UN Police Commissioner.
A Christian widow from Balochistan.
Representing Pakistan at the top of international peacekeeping.
She said: I never imagined myself as a trailblazer.
She did not have to imagine it.
She just kept walking forward.
Helena Iqbal Saeed.
Pakistan Zindabad. 🇵🇰
Not everyone gives a revolver as a gift.
At the end of a historic day, a pleasant surprise was waiting for me in my office. We received 90 mangoes as a gift from the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Within an hour, only a few were left.
Thank you!