Saadia Sehar Haidari

Saadia Sehar Haidari is a Pakistani photojournalist, and the first female photojournalist in Pakistan.[1] Her grandfather, Mohammad Bakhsh Bhatti, was a photographer in Pakistan.

Haidari now works for Geo Independent Media.[2]

Haidari’s husband Aziz was a photojournalist who joined Reuters in November 1991 as a correspondent and photographer.[1] In November 2001, he traveled from Pakistan to the Jalalabad province to cover the American invasion of Afghanistan.[3] He set out for Kabul as part of a 28-car convoy of journalists. Three of the cars in the convoy were ambushed by Taliban members. Aziz was killed along with three other foreign journalists.[1][3]

After the death of her husband, and as a single mother, Haidari has worked to become a prominent photojournalist in the Pakistan over the past decade.

Haidari has worked with various organizations including Nikhar, a local urdu weekly, the INP news agency, UNICEF and the Xinhua News agency.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Saadia Sehar (2010-10-13). "Pakistan's first woman photojournalist: inspired by the husband she lost to war". Mousetrap Media. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
  2. ↑ "Saadia Sehar Haidari". Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Saadia's story". Retrieved 5 September 2016.
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