Hijab Imtiaz Ali

Hijab Imtiaz Ali
Born1908
Hyderabad, Hyderabad State, British India
(now Hyderabad, India)
Died19 March 1999 at age 90 or 91
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
OccupationsWriter, editor, pilot
SpouseImtiaz Ali Taj
ChildrenYasmeen Tahir (daughter)
RelativesNaeem Tahir (son-in-law)
Faran Tahir (grandson)
Ali Tahir (grandson)

Hijab Imtiaz Ali (1908–1999) was a Pakistani writer, editor and diarist. She is a well known name in Urdu literature and a pioneer of romanticism in Urdu. She is also considered as the first female Muslim pilot after she obtained her official pilot license in 1936, although Zuleykha Seyidmammadova from Soviet Azerbaijan had qualified as a pilot two years earlier, in 1934.

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