[2] Zubeida Mustafa joined the Dawn newspaper's staff, Pakistan's leading English language daily in July 1975 as assistant editor.
She used her perspective as a woman to write editorials promoting international peace and pleading for social justice.
[2] As a female journalist, Mustafa has stated that the injustices Pakistani women suffer "touches her deeply".
[2] According to Newsline (magazine), Zubeida Mustafa considers longtime editor of Dawn newspaper, Ahmed Ali Khan, her mentor who taught her how to "bottle a river in a tumbler (darya ko koozay mein band karna) and how to look at a problem from the people's point of view and to never be unfair in one's writing".
[2] Zubeida Mustafa retired from her job as a journalist after 33 years of service in 2009 due to some personal health issues.