Naheed Akhtar
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Naheed Akhtar is a Pakistan
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Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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. She was discovered by veteran musician M. Ashraf in the mid-1970s.
Naheed Akhtar was a successful replacement for Runa Laila, who left Pakistan the same year. Her debut film was "Nanha Farishta" in 1974 and that year she climbed to the top with super hit songs in the film "Shama". When she was singing she put even Noor Jehan out of business in Urdu films. she was brilliant in fast tracks, sad songs and ghazals as well. she was amazingly popular because of her terrific looks and turned down many offers for film heroine. Journalist Asif Ali Pota married her in the mid-1980s, when she left the film scene. She had a scandalous affair with then Federal Minister and now Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gillani
Yousaf Raza Gillani
Yousuf Raza Gilani is the current prime minister of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. He was nominated as Prime Minister by the PPP, with the support of its coalition partners, Pakistan Muslim League , Awami National Party, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and Muttahida Qaumi Movement, on 22 March 2008...



Naheed Akhtar is married to Jang Group's senior investigative journalist Asif Ali Pota.

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