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 c ...

(PTV). Hashmi has over four decades of experience working with public media. She is currently the General Manager International Relations at Hum TV. 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 ...

, 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, 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 mem ...

. 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 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 Council Faiz 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 in 1946. She has an older sister, Salima Hashmi, 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 award by the President of Pakistan in 2003 for excellence in art. *She was awarded the Japanese broadcaster NHK's President of NHK Prize for "outstanding achievements in educational media".. "Hashmi was also awarded the NHK Prize for her role in women empowerment and raising human rights awareness".TV stalwart Moneeza Hashmi to receive Japanese award on October 22
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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