Died 11 February 2016, Karachi, Pakistan | ||
Naushaba Burney (November 1932 – 11 February 2016) was a journalist from Pakistan. She was the country's first active woman journalist.
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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. At Partition, she migrated to Pakistan with her family. She was married to the renown journalist, Iqbal Hassan (I.H.) Burney, editor of Outlook Magazine, with whom she had one son and two daughters. She completed her Masters in Journalism form the University of California, Berkeley in the 1950s. She also taught journalism at the University of Karachi.
Career
Over the years, she worked in a number of organisations including Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Dawn newspaper and Aga Khan University, Karachi. She died in Karachi in 2016.