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Zahida Hina is a noted Urdu columnist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and dramatist from Pakistan.

Zahida Hina was born in India, after the independence of Pakistan in Her father, Muhammad Abul Khair, emigrated to Pakistan and settled in Karachi , where Hina was brought up and homeschooled until she started her formal education from 7th class at Happy Home School. She wrote her first story when she was nine years old.

She graduated from University of Karachi , and her first essay was published in the monthly Insha in She chose journalism as a career in the mids. In , she married the well-known poet Jaun Elia.

Zahida Hina (Urdu: زاہدہ حنا) is a noted Urdu columnist, essayist, short story writer, novelist and dramatist from Pakistan.

Hina was associated with the daily Jang from until , when she moved to the Daily Express , Pakistan. Since , she has written a weekly column, "Pakistan Diary", in Rasrang , the Sunday magazine of India's most widely-read Hindi newspaper, Dainik Bhaskar. Hina has written more than 2, journalistic articles. Many of her short stories have been translated into English , Bengali , Hindi and Marathi.

Some of her important titles are:. She is a known critic of nuclear technology for any purpose military or civilian. In August , she was nominated for Pakistan's highest civil award, the Presidential Award Pride of Performance , which she declined as a mark of protest against the military government in Pakistan. Contents move to sidebar hide.

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