Tahira Wasti was a well-known Pakistani writer and television actress.
11 Facts About Tahira Wasti
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Tahira Wasti was one of the most popular Pakistani TV actresses of her time as well as one of the most successful actresses of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
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Tahira Wasti is best known for her portrayal of Isabella of Castile in the TV drama Shaheen.
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Tahira Wasti received her early education from Sargodha, and later moved to Lahore for higher education, then Karachi.
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Tahira Wasti started her career with writing articles in a magazine at the age of 16, and worked as an English newscaster on PTV News in 1964.
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Tahira Wasti started working as an actor in the 1968 Pakistan Television Corporation in 1968 drama serial Jaib Katra based on a novel by Saadat Hasan Manto.
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Tahira Wasti appeared in a number of TV dramas from 1968 until the 1990s, most of them have become classics of PTV, such as Kashkol, Jaangloos, and Daldal.
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Tahira Wasti wrote plays for television and showed a special interest in science fiction.
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Tahira Wasti was the wife of TV actor and English language newscaster Rizwan Wasti; they are the parents of TV actress Laila Wasti.
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Tahira Wasti had developed heart ailments, diabetes and had been deeply affected by her husband's death in January 2011.
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Tahira Wasti died of natural causes on 11 March 2012, in Karachi, at the age of 68.