Quratulain “Annie” Ali Khan (Urdu: قرة العین علی خان; 1980 – 21 July 2018) was a Pakistani model, freelance journalist, and author.

The article addressed colorism in Pakistan and India and detailed Ali Khan's time as a model for Fair and Lovely skin lightener.

[1] She published widely in newspapers and magazines including Dawn, Herald, The Express Tribune, The Asia Society, The Caravan, Tanqeed, Roads & Kingdoms, and the blog “Chapati Mystery.” She was praised for the brave journalism she pursued, and she wrote about the misogyny and oppression of women in Pakistan.

The research done for the piece also kickstarted Ali Khan's three-year project to write about women who “would never be allowed to speak, never be heard if they scream, never be seen if they obstruct, never be understood as equals, as companions, as human beings.”[10] Ali Khan lived among communities of women in Balochistan, Thatta in Sindh, and Lyari in Karachi, who revered Sati, their name for the Hindu goddess Sita.

[6] Her maternal grandfather, Sheikh Abbas, was a Sindhi civil engineer, and her father, Masood, was a Muhajir, among the Muslim refugees who fled to Pakistan after Partition, who worked as an airplane pilot.