Nahid Mirza

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]