Nahid Iskander Mirza (6 February 1919 – 23 January 2019), born Nahid Amir Teymour (previously Nahid Afghamy), was an Iranian-Pakistani socialite who was the first lady of Pakistan between 1956 and 1958 and a distant relative of another first lady of Pakistan,

Nusrat Bhutto ''Begum'' Nusrat Bhutto (; sd, نصرت ڀٽو; ur, ; born as Nusrat Ispahani; 23 March 1929 – 23 October 2011) was an Iranian-Pakistani public figure of Kurdish origin, who served as spouse of the Prime Minister of Pakistan between 1971 unti ...

Personal life

Nahid was the daughter of Aristocrat

Amirteymour Kalali Amirteymour Kalali (5 October 1895 – 11 February 1988)http://www.iichs.iمحمدابراهیم امیرتیمور (کلالی)/ref> ( fa, امیرتیمور کلالی), also known as Sardar Nosrat, was a prominent Iranian statesman and aristo ...

, and the granddaughter of Mir 'Ali Mardan Shah, Nuzrat ol-Molk and his wife Princess Ashraf us-Sultana. Nahid was first married to an Iranian Lieutenant Colonel Afghamy, a then military-attaché at the Iranian Embassy in Pakistan. At the same time,

Iskander Mirza Sahibzada Iskander Ali Mirza ( bn, ইস্কান্দার আলী মির্জা; ur, ; 13 November 1899 – 13 November 1969), , was a Pakistani Bengali general officer and civil servant who was the first President of Pakis ...

was the secretary of the Defense Ministry in Pakistan. During an event at the Russian embassy in Karachi, she met Iskandar Mirza for the first time. In 1952, the Afghamys left Pakistan for Tehran again. And Nahid joined her daughter in

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, who at the time was to enter a boarding school in the town. In December 1953 she divorced Afghamy and in September 1954 she married Mirza who had lost his wife and son in a plane crash. According to ''

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'', she played a major role in the resolution of the border dispute between Pakistan and Iran about

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. In 1956, Iskander Mirza became the

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Following the military coup in Pakistan in 1958, the Mirzas were exiled to London where they lived at

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. Iskander died in November 1969. She died in

on 23 January 2019.

References

1919 births 2019 deaths Place of birth missing Iranian emigrants to Pakistan Pakistani people of Kurdish descent Pakistani socialites Spouses of presidents of Pakistan Iranian Kurdish women Naturalised citizens of Pakistan Spouses of prime ministers of Pakistan Iranian expatriates in the United Kingdom {{Pakistan-bio-stub