Nahid Iskander Mirza (6 February 1919 – 23 January 2019),^[1] born Nahid Amir Teymour (previously Nahid Afghamy), was an Iranian-Pakistani socialite who was the first lady of Pakistan between 1956 and 1958 ^[1] and a distant relative of another first lady of Pakistan, Nusrat Bhutto.^[2]

Personal life

Nahid was the daughter of Aristocrat Amirteymour Kalali, and the granddaughter of Mir 'Ali Mardan Shah, Nuzrat ol-Molk and his wife Princess Ashraf us-Sultana.

Nahid was first married to an Iranian Lieutenant Colonel Afghamy, a then military-attaché at the Iranian Embassy in Pakistan.^[2] At the same time, Iskander Mirza was the secretary of the Defense Ministry in Pakistan.^[2][3] During an event at the Russian embassy in Karachi, she met Iskandar Mirza for the first time.^[1]

In 1952, the Afghamys left Pakistan for Tehran again. And Nahid joined her daughter in London, who at the time was to enter a boarding school in the town.^[1] In December 1953 she divorced Afghamy and in September 1954 she married Mirza^[1] who had lost his wife and son in a plane crash.^[2]

According to Pakistan Today, she played a major role in the resolution of the border dispute between Pakistan and Iran about Mirjaveh.^[3] In 1956, Iskander Mirza became the President of Pakistan and she became the First Lady of Pakistan^[1] Following the military coup in Pakistan in 1958, the Mirzas were exiled to London where they lived at South Kensington.^[1] Iskander died in November 1969.^[1] She died in London on 23 January 2019.^[1]

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