1. Mehnaz Begum was a Pakistani TV, radio, and film singer.
11 Facts About Mehnaz Begum
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Mehnaz Begum was well known as a film playback singer in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Mehnaz Begum's family migrated to Pakistan in the late 1950s.
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Mehnaz Begum started her career as a playback singer in the early 1970s.
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Mehnaz Begum sang a variety of genres but specialized in ghazal, thumri, dadra, khayal, drupad and reciting salam, noha and marsiya.
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Mehnaz Begum sang ghazals and light classical music for Pakistani television shows.
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Mehnaz Begum never married but some of her favorite hobbies included bird-watching and admiring nature.
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Mehnaz Begum loved to paint in her college days and wanted to choose painting as her career.
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Mehnaz Begum died on 19 January 2013 at a Bahrain hospital while transiting from Karachi to Miami, Florida for medical treatment of a respiratory ailment.
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Mehnaz Begum's condition worsened during the flight and during a stopover at the Bahrain airport, she was taken to a hospital where she died.
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Mehnaz Begum was laid to rest at Wadi-e-Hussain graveyard in Sohrab Goth Karachi.