Naushaba Burney
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Naushaba Burney (November 1932 – 11 February 2016) was a journalist from Pakistan. She was the country's first active woman journalist.[1]
Background
Burney was born in Nagpur, British India (now in India) in November 1932. She had five siblings (3 brothers and 2 sisters) including Ameena Saiyid, the Managing Director of Oxford University Press, Karachi.[1] At Partition, she migrated to Pakistan with her family.[1] She was married to the renown journalist, Iqbal Hassan (I.H.) Burney,[2] editor of Outlook Magazine,[2][1] with whom she had one son and two daughters.[1] She completed her Masters in Journalism form the University of California, Berkeley[2] in the 1950s.[1] She also taught journalism at the University of Karachi.[1][2]
Career
Over the years, she worked in a number of organisations including Pakistan International Airlines (PIA),[2] Dawn newspaper[1] and Aga Khan University, Karachi.[1] She died in Karachi in 2016.
References
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