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decalred violative of fundamental rights as it does not qulaify the restriction but leaves it to the discertion of the government. Holding the order of the Central Government illegal and unconstitutional, the government awarded her the costs of petition to Zaib-un-Nissa. This incident made journalistic history, and gave her the distinction of being the first woman journalist to have won a case in the Supreme Court.
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A lonely child, Zeb-un-Nissa took to writing poetry as a means to express her thoughts and emotions. Her later writing was affected by her trips to rural areas of Bengal and the Punjab, including her father's birthplace, the Bengal village of Borotajpur (a village near Janai, Hooghly). She was educated at the
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became a highly controversial magazine in the '60s, mainly due to Zaib-un-Nissa's editorials, which were highly critical of the government's authoritarian form of rule. As her magazine became and more and more risqué, Zaib-un-Nissa began to feel that she and her family could soon be in danger. Highly
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She was plunged into sadness following her husband's death, and soon retired from an active writing life. Disenchanted with the new generation of Pakistanis, Zaib-un-Nissa fell into seclusion and soon moved in with her daughter, choosing to spend her remaining years with her family. She retired from
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household filled with Bengali thinkers and philosophers of the age, as her father's house at 48, Jhowtalla Road, was something of a meeting place for the Calcutta literary circle. She started to write at an early age, and received considerable support from both her English mother and Bengali father.
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During this period, she wrote a series of very critical editorials about Ayub Khan's style of government, starting with "Please, Mr. President!", a very emotional open letter in which she pleaded with him to stop ordering the police to harm students taking part in demonstrations. After Khan replied
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An obituary in 'Dawn' newspaper said, "even her detractors admired her for the courage of conviction and the strength of character she displayed throughout her life." Another newspaper obituary said, "She will be long remembered for her pioneering role in a certain genre of journalism in Pakistan,
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After Brohi's intervention on her behalf, the Supreme Court passed judgement in her favour(cited as PLD 1958 SC 35), it was a petiton under Article 22 of the Constitution of 1956 and was directly entertained by Supreme Court. Through this judgment Section 8 of the Security of Pakistan 1952 was
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For most of the 1970s, she and her husband lived in Dublin, Ireland, where he had been transferred. Zaib-un-Nissa put her career on hold to be with her husband, and visited Pakistan regularly. She returned near the end of the decade and began writing a column entitled "Thinking Aloud" for the
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After moving to the Punjab in 1942, Zaib-un-Nissa was shocked. Raised in an Anglo-Indian household, she found it hard to adjust to the very different lifestyle of her husband's large Punjabi family. It took time for her to adjust, as she admitted in the foreword to
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demanded that she focus her writing on "issues relating to women," an apparent reference to an earlier message in which he suggested she write about "cooking, child-rearing, and other matters of feminine concern." Hamidullah founded a monthly magazine called the
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In April 1961, Zaib-un-Nissa opened her own publishing house: Mirror Press. Mirror Press, and its subsidiary, Mirror Publications, were charged with printing the Mirror from 1961 onwards. They also did other jobs, but the publishing house remained small.
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In 1971, Zaib-un-Nissa's husband was transferred to Ireland, to head Bata operations there. As neither of her two daughters was willing to take over the magazine, she closed it down, and sold off her publishing house, Mirror Press.
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In 1983, Zaib-un-Nissa husband had a heart attack, and he died the next year. On the day of his funeral, she wrote what was to become the most famous article of her later career. This introspective piece was published in the
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After independence in 1947, Zaib-un-Nissa decided to work in the field of journalism, and soon established herself as an outspoken writer in her column "Thru a Woman's Eyes", in the Karachi daily
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Ayub Khan soon abdicated, ironically doing exactly what she had advised him to do. However, she continued to write critical editorials whenever she felt the government was in need of a rebuke.
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from 1970 to 1971. In 1971, after civil unrest and the subsequent independence of Bangladesh, Zaib-un-Nissa sent a telegram congratulating the new government but chose to remain in Pakistan.
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became very popular, and Zaib-un-Nissa soon became quite famous as a journalist and editor. The Pakistani government included her in numerous press delegations during this period.
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Zaib-un-Nissa died on 10 September 2000, at the age of 81. She had been rushed to the hospital on the 9th, but died in the early hours of the 10th, due to water in her lungs.
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of Karachi, a member of the Horticultural Society, and first woman-president of the Flower Show Committee. Another organisation Hamidullah played an important role in was the
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The following year, she represented Pakistan at the United Nations sponsored seminar on Civic Responsibilities and Increased Participation of Asian Women in Public Life.
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in 1947, she wrote for many Indian newspapers, and was the first Muslim woman to write a column in an Indian newspaper. After independence, her column in the newspaper
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came close to being banned many times, and was actually banned twice. However, this period of her career came to a climax in the February 1969 edition of the
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passed to her younger daughter, Yasmine S. Ahmed. This included the right to all her pictures, works, etc. Due to popular demand, a fourth edition of
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All of her books were dedicated to him, proof of their devotion to one another. They had two children: Nilofar (b. 1943) and Yasmine (b. 1949).
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and Indian nationalist and writer. She had two brothers, and one half-brother from her mother's second marriage. She grew up in a tightly knit
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of Karachi, she continued to comment on the socio-political aspects of Pakistani society. However, she was becoming increasingly reclusive.
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to the first editorial with a letter in which he dismissed Zaib-un-Nissa as "rashly emotional", the tension steadily increased. The
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in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Hamidullah was the head of Bata's operations in Pakistan, and was sent to head Bata in Ireland in 1972.
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in Pakistan. She was Pakistan's first female editor and publisher, and the country's first female columnist writing in English.
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In 1940, Zaib-un-Nissa married Khalifa Muhammad Hamidullah. Unlike most marriages of the time, hers was not an
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Zaib-un-Nissa first came into prominence in 1936, when a poem of hers was accepted for publication by
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In 1955, as part of a press delegation to Cairo, she became the first woman to speak at the ancient
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In 1987, however, she was plunged into the public eye once again, when her book of short stories,
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and his government, Zaib-un-Nissa dropped out of governmental favour. As such, the
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in 1947, she and her husband helped refugees coming across the border from India.
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in 1933, at age 15. At 18, she won a poetry competition sponsored by England's
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Noorani, Asif (21 May 1997). "Zaib-un-Nisa Hamidullah: Mirror to the past".
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made her the first female political commentator in Pakistan. After she left
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In 1945, Zaib-un-Nissa and her husband were in Simla at the time of the
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an active career, and only wrote occasional articles during the 1980s.
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In 1957, her outspoken criticism of the harsh regime of Major-General
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This week 50 years ago: Parking on Elphinstone Street made punishable
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A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English
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Zaib-un-Nissa was Deputy Leader of the Pakistani delegation to the
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Her husband, belonged to a well-known Punjabi family. His father,
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Dawn (newspaper), Updated 18 January 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2018
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Ispahani, Akhtar (1 August 1997). "Through The Looking-Glass".
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In 1958, she published an anthology of her short stories,
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The Young Wife and Other Stories, Oxford University Press
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In the 1960s, the government named a major street in the
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Zaib-un-Nissa was born in 1921 to a literary family in
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Archived from 738:, 1946 – The Lion Press, Lahore. 714:The Young Wife and Other Stories 675:The Young Wife and Other Stories 647:All Pakistan Women's Association 558:The Young Wife and Other Stories 526:, and the forced resignation of 470:All Pakistan Women's Association 255:for a poem she had published in 38: 1021:. Karachi: Mirror Publications. 1007:. Karachi: Mirror Publications. 723: 614:United Nations General Assembly 504:, during her trip. The editor, 425:, as well as a close friend of 246:The Illustrated Weekly of India 1140:20th-century Pakistani writers 1059:"Begum Zaibunnissa Hamidullah" 982:. Karachi: Royal Book Company. 924: 902:"Begum Zaibunnissa Hamidullah" 785: 1: 1185:University of Calcutta alumni 1043:. Dawn Group. pp. 20–22. 801: 773:List of Pakistani journalists 656: 435:Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan 205: 116:Writer, journalist, publisher 45: 640: 623: 607: 571: 551: 391: 369: 349: 323: 7: 766: 720:, Pakistan in August 2008. 457:, and Jahanara Habibullah. 358:. It was here that she met 335:Illustrated Weekly of India 300:, was the librarian of the 268: 10: 1236: 1210:Pakistani women columnists 1170:Pakistani magazine editors 1165:Pakistani feminist writers 466:Women's International Club 346:, another book of poetry. 298:Khalifa Mohammad Asadullah 44:Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, 1101:: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( 1075:: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( 1015:Hamidullah, Zaib-un-Nissa 1001:Hamidullah, Zaib-un-Nissa 703: 542:Supreme Court of Pakistan 528:Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy 318: 138: 120: 112: 93: 55: 37: 30: 23: 1215:20th-century journalists 778: 680: 131:Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah 31: 25:Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah 1150:Dawn (newspaper) people 718:Oxford University Press 1205:Women magazine editors 989:Rahman, Tariq (1991). 388:movement in Pakistan. 278: 139:জেবুন্নেসা হামিদুল্লাহ 80:(present-day Kolkata, 32:জেবুন্নেসা হামিদুল্লাহ 1220:20th-century Bengalis 1195:Pakistani journalists 742:Sixty Days in America 484:Sixty Days in America 289:shoe company. 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