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Muneeza Hashmi ( ur, ; born 1946) is a broadcaster, television producer, actress and a former general manager of the
Pakistan Television Corporation Pakistan Television Corporation ( ur, ; reporting name: PTV) is the Pakistani state-owned broadcaster. Pakistan entered the television broadcasting age in 1964, with a pilot television station established at Lahore. Background Historical co ...
(PTV). Hashmi has over four decades of experience working with
public media Public broadcasting involves radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing ...
. She is currently the General Manager International Relations at
Hum TV Hum TV is a 24-hour Urdu General Entertainment TV channel based in Karachi, Pakistan. It was founded by Sultana Siddiqui and Duraid Qureshi. It is owned by Hum Network Limited and traded on Pakistan Stock Exchange as (HUMNL). Hum Network Limi ...
. She is the youngest daughter of the prominent Pakistani poet
Faiz Ahmed Faiz Faiz Ahmad ''Faiz'' (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984; Urdu, Punjabi: فیض احمد فیض) was a Pakistani poet, and author of Urdu and Punjabi literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated Pakistani Urdu writers of his time. Out ...
.


Education

She received her early education from
Kinnaird College for Women The Kinnaird College for Women (KCW) is a university located in Lahore, Pakistan. It is a women's liberal arts university. Kinnaird was established in 1913 by the Zenana Bible and Medical Mission. In 1919, Presbyterian Mission Church and the Ch ...
, and her bachelor's from
University of the Punjab The University of the Punjab (Urdu, pnb, ), also referred to as Punjab University, is a public, research, coeducational higher education institution located in Lahore, Pakistan. Punjab University is the oldest public university in Pakistan. ...
. She completed her Master's degree in Education from the
University of Hawaii A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...
, USA in 1981.


Career

Hashmi started work at the Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) in 1967 as an assistant producer. In 1998, she level up to the position of the General Manager of Lahore PTV station. She also worked in TV dramas in the 1970s written by
Ashfaq Ahmed Ashfaq Ahmed Khan ( ur, ; 22 August 1925 – 7 September 2004) was a writer, playwright and broadcaster from Pakistan. His works in Urdu included novels, short stories and plays for television and radio of Pakistan. He received the President's ...
and she was director programmes at PTV at the time of her retirement from the state-run broadcaster. Hashmi was twice elected President of the board of the
Commonwealth Broadcasting Association The Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) is a representative body for public service broadcasters throughout the Commonwealth, founded in 1945. A not-for-profit non-government organisation, the CBA is funded by subscriptions from 102 memb ...
. Later, she returned as board president when the CBA rebranded itself as the Public Media Alliance. She was appointed to hold the inaugural Benazir Bhutto Chair for Peace, Reconciliation and Development at the
Lahore College for Women University The Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) ( ur, ) Is a public university in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Founded in 1922 with a capacity of 60 students, it now has a full-time enrollment of about 15,000 students and admits students at Intermed ...
in 2013. In August 2019, Hashmi became the chairperson of the board of governors of the
Lahore Arts Council Alhamra Arts Council (also known as the Alhamra Hall, Alhamra Cultural Complex, Alhamra Art Gallery and Lahore Arts CouncilFaiz Ahmad Faiz Faiz Ahmad ''Faiz'' (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984; Urdu, Punjabi: فیض احمد فیض) was a Pakistani poet, and author of Urdu and Punjabi literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated Pakistani Urdu writers of his time. Out ...
and
Alys Faiz Alys Faiz (Urdu:; September 1915 – 12 March 2003) was a Pakistani poet, writer, journalist, human rights activist, social worker and a teacher. Alys was born in London, but she later became a naturalized citizen of Pakistan. She was the wife of ...
in 1946. She has an older sister,
Salima Hashmi Salima Hashmi ( ur, ; born 1942) is a Pakistani painter artist, former college professor, anti-nuclear weapons activist and former caretaker minister in Sethi caretaker ministry. She has served for four years as a professor and the dean of Nati ...
, who is an acclaimed artist, educator, and activist. She married Humair Hashmi and has two children, the actor Adeel Hashmi and Ali Madeeh Hashmi, a psychiatrist and writer.


Filmography


Television series


Awards and honours

*Hashmi received the
Pride of Performance The Pride of Performance ( ur, ), officially known as Presidential Pride of Performance, is an award bestowed by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to recognize people with "notable achievements in the field of art, science, literature, sports, an ...
award by the
President of Pakistan The president of Pakistan ( ur, , translit=s̤adr-i Pākiṣṭān), officially the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is the ceremonial head of state of Pakistan and the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces.TV stalwart Moneeza Hashmi to receive Japanese award on October 22
Images (Dawn Group of Newspapers), Published 30 September 2015, Retrieved 29 October 2022


Bibliography

Hashmi's collection of interviews of notable Pakistani women, ''Kaun Hoon Main?'' (English: ''Who Am I?'')'','' was published in 2014 by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute. In May 2022, she published ''Conversations with my Father: Forty Years on, a Daughter Responds'', a collection of letters her father wrote to her four decades ago.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hashmi, Muneeza 1946 births Living people Pakistani female writers Pakistani television executives Pakistani women Recipients of the Pride of Performance Pakistani women writers 21st-century Pakistani actresses Pakistani broadcasters Pakistani people of English descent Pakistani television producers