Mehnaz Begum (Urdu: مہناز بیگم, 1958 – 19 January 2013) was a Pakistani TV, radio, and film singer.
Mehdi Hassan and his elder brother Pandit Ghulam Qadir trained her at this radio station for about a month.
[4] She sang a variety of genres but specialized in ghazal, thumri, dadra, khayal, drupad and reciting salam, noha and marsiya.
She also sang ghazals and light classical music for Pakistani television shows[1][3][4] Mehnaz never married but some of her favorite hobbies included bird-watching and admiring nature.
[4] She died on 19 January 2013 at a Bahrain hospital while transiting from Karachi to Miami, Florida for medical treatment of a respiratory ailment.