Nadira, Lady Naipaul (born Nadira Khannum Alvi; 1953), is a Kenyan-born British Pakistani journalist and the widow of novelist Sir V. S. Naipaul.
[1] At the age of 16 she married an engineer, Agha Hashim, who was 26 years her senior.
They had two daughters, Gul Zehra (aka Naeema Hashim) and Sumar Zahra, who lived with various relatives after the marriage ended.
[2] She worked as a journalist for The Nation, a Pakistani newspaper, for ten years before meeting V. S. Naipaul and moving to England after their marriage.
[3] Lady Naipaul's brother, Ameer Faisal Alavi, a two-star general in the Pakistan Army, was assassinated in 2008.