Tahira Naqvi

Tahira Naqvi[3][4] (Punjabi, Urdu: طاہرہ نقوی; 20 August 1956 – 2 June 1982) was a Pakistani actress who began her career in the 1970s and worked until her death at the age of 25.

[1] Tahira, along with Uzma Gillani, Khalida Riyasat ,and Roohi Bano dominated Pakistan's television screens during the 1970s and 1980s.

[5] Tahira completed her early studies at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore, and later she graduated from Government Girls College.

[2] Tahira also appeared in two films Badaltey Mosam (1980) and Mian Biwi Razi (1982) both of the movies were Silver Jubliee hits at the Box Office but her main focus was on television.

[16][17] On 2 June 1982, she died at Combined Military Hospital in Rawalpindi at the age of 25 after battling with cancer and was buried in the compound's graveyard at the tomb of Mian Mir in Lahore.

Naqvi's grave at Mian Mir graveyard Lahore