Syeda Matanat Ghaffar (born September 1963), commonly known as Moni Mohsin, is a British-Pakistani writer based in London, United Kingdom.
[4][5][6] She wrote a long running satirical column "The Diary of a Social Butterfly" for The Friday Times and a book with the same name.
[citation needed] When General Zia ul-Haq came to power in a coup in 1977, her family began to feel less comfortable in the new, religious Pakistan, where political repression against nonconformists became routine, but she chose to remain in Lahore.
After General Zia's death in 1988, she moved more decisively into the public sphere, working for the country's first independent magazine Friday Times, where she rose to the ranks of features editor.
[29] Her writings have also appeared in The Times of India,[30] The Guardian,[31] Prospect,[32] The Nation,[33] 1843 (The Economist),[34] Boston Review,[35] NPR,[36] Herald[37] and other publications.