In June 2009, Noreen was harvesting falsa berries with a group of other women farmhands in a field in Sheikhupura.
She was asked at one point to fetch water from a nearby well; she complied but stopped to take a drink with an old metal cup she had found lying next to the well.
A neighbor of Noreen, Musarat, who had been involved in a running feud with Noreen's family saw her and angrily told her that it was forbidden for a Christian to drink water from the same utensil from which Muslims drink, and that some of the other workers considered her to be unclean because she was a Christian, referring to the caste system in Pakistan.
During his victory speech, the 42-year-old progressive declared, “But today, tonight, we can turn that ‘Inshallah’ into an ‘Alhamdulillah!’”
El-Sayed, a former public health official and outspoken critic of U.S. support for Israel, ran on Medicare for All, reducing the influence of money in politics, and challenging the political establishment. He is set to take office in January 2027.







