Pakistan-origin British MP Nus Ghani takes oath in Urdu to honour mother

Pakistan-origin British MP Nusrat Munir ul Ghani - popularly known as Nus Ghani - who recently retained her constituency in the general elections - surprised many by taking her oath in Urdu.

“Oath proudly taken in both English and Urdu to honour my mum,” she wrote on Twitter.

The Conservative Party MP retained her Wealden constituency securing 61.2 per cent of the total votes. She won the seat with a majority of over 24, 000 votes.

Ghani is one of the twelve British-Pakistanis who won the June 8 snap general elections.

“I’m so proud of @Nus_Ghani a great patriot and great MP. Our country has room for all languages, they enrich us and help us know our world,” Tonbridge MP Tom Tugendhat wrote on Twitter.

Ghani came into the media's focus after she proposed a legislation to ban the term “honour killing” in official publications as it was being used by abusers as “pathetic self-justification” for their violence. 

Speaking in the House of Commons she said “Language matters,” adding, “the use of the term ‘honour’ to describe a violent criminal act – sometimes committed against a man, but more often against a woman – can be explained only as a means of self-justification for the perpetrator. It diminishes the victim and provides a convenient excuse for what in our society we should accurately and simply call murder, rape, abuse or enslavement,” she was quoted by BBC.