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Pakistan’s first woman correspondent Shahida Kazi passes away


Pakistan's first woman correspondent, veteran Pakistani journalist, and academic Shahida Kazi passed away at the age of 79 in Karachi.

She had been ailing and undergoing treatment at Karachi's Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital. Her funeral prayer will be offered following her last rites in Zuhr, after which the late journalist will be laid to rest at the KU graveyard.

In 1944, Shahida Kazi was born in the family of a renowned scholar Allama Kazi II in Karachi. Her family belongs to a village situated near Dadu in Sindh. She completed her matriculation from St. Lawrence Convent School and later graduated from St. Joseph’s College in 1963.

As her family encouraged women to get advanced education, it was easy for her to go the university to complete her higher studies.

Unlike her female cousins, she did not pursue her career in the medicine field and also turned down the opportunity to appear in the Superior Services examination to join the federal bureaucracy.

She was interested in English literature but applied to the then newly established department of journalism at the University of Karachi where she realised that she was not the only female student in the department but, she was also the first-ever female who had taken admission into the field of journalism.


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