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{{short description|Pakistani writer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Waheeda Naseem
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| birth_name = Faheeda Naseem Begum
| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|10|9|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[Telangana]], [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1996|10|28|1927|10|9}}
| death_place = [[Karachi]], [[Sindh]], [[Pakistan]]
| education = [[Osmania University]]
| occupation = {{Hlist | Writer | Poet}}
| years_active = 1948 – 1996
| children = 3
| parents = Muhammad Fasiuddin (father) <br> Aziz-Un-Nisa (mother)
| relatives = [[Shamim Ejaz]] (sister) <br> Ejaz Hussain Alvi (grandfather)
}}

'''Waheeda Naseem''', also known as '''Naseem''', was a Pakistani novelist, poet, short story writer and fiction writer.<ref name=DawnNewspaper/>

== Early life ==
Waheeda was born on 9 October at 1927 in [[Hyderabad]] at [[Telangana]] during [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The History of Urdu Press: A Case Study of Hyderabad|website=Classical Publishing Company|page=103}}</ref> She was the younger sister of [[Shamim Ejaz]] and her mother Aziz-Un-Nisa was a poetess and writer and her grandfather Ejaz Hussain Alvi was also a poet and writer. She was encouraged by her mother and maternal gandfather to write.<ref name=DawnNewspaper>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/670221/womens-secret-language-and-waheeda-naseem|title=Women's secret language and Waheeda Naseem|website=Dawn Newspaper|date=March 14, 2023}}</ref>

She completed her education from [[Osmania University]] and graduated with MSC in Botany in 1951.<ref name=DawnNewspaper/><ref>{{cite book|title=Women's Year Book of Pakistan Volume 1|website=Ladies Forum Punlications|page=203}}</ref>

== Career ==
Waheeda started writing short stories from an early age after she was encouraged by her mother.<ref name=DawnNewspaper/> After finishing her studies then in 1952 her family migrated to [[Pakistan]] and settled at [[Karachi]] later she joined education department and used to teach botany which was her profession later she became principle of Government College Science for Women at [[Nazimabad]] and later she retired in 1987.<ref>{{cite book|title=Locating Home: India's Hyderabadis Abroad|website=Stanford University Press|page=61}}</ref> She wrote 24 Urdu novels and short stories.<ref name=DawnNewspaper/>

Waheeda also wrote several dramas for Pakistan Television Coraporation.<ref name=ARYDigital/> In 1972 she wrote ''[[Naag Muni]]'' a supernatural musical film based on her novel it had [[Waheed Murad]], [[Rani Begum|Rani]] and [[Sangeeta (Pakistani actress)|Sangeeta]] in lead roles the film was a silver jubilee hit at the box office.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pakmag.net/film/details.php?pid=1159|title=Naag Muni|website=Pakistan Film Magazine|date=January 18, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Statesman Volume 17|website=The Statesman Ltd|page=12}}</ref>

She got popular because of poet and fictions stories and she wrote several books including ''Moji Naseem'', ''Naat wa Salam'', ''Marsiya Kakuri'', ''Naag Mani'', ''Raj Mahal'', ''Rang Mahal'' and ''Deep''. The most well known stories she wrote are ''Aurangabad'', ''From Malik Anbar to Aurangzeb'', ''Woman and Urdu Language'', ''Shahan Hai Taj'', ''Dastaan Dur Dastaan'', ''Sahil Ki Tamnna'', ''Gham Dil Kahe Na Jaye'', ''Shabu Rani'' and ''Zakhum Hayat''.<ref name=ARYDigital>{{cite web|url=https://urdu.arynews.tv/death-anniversary-wahida-naseem/|title=معروف افسانہ نگار اور شاعرہ وحیدہ نسیم کا تذکرہ|website=ARY News|date=July 28, 2023}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Waheeda was married and had three children and her elder sister [[Shamim Ejaz]] was a newscaster.<ref>{{cite journal|title=ناول نگار وحیدہ نسیم|website=Nigar Magazine|page=119}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/922691/newscaster-shamim-ejaz-passes-away|title=Newscaster Shamim Ejaz passes away|website=Dawn News|date=February 20, 2023}}</ref>

== Death ==
Waheeda died on 28 October 1996 in [[Karachi]], Pakistan and was buried at Model Colony graveyard in Karachi.<ref name=DawnNewspaper/>

== Filmography ==
=== Writer ===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Year
! scope="col"|Title
! scope="col"|Notes
|-
|1971
| ''[[Naag Muni]]''
| Writer
|}

=== Television series ===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col"|Year
! scope="col"|Title
! scope="col"|Notes
|-
|2003
| ''Sahil Ki Tamanna''
| Writer<ref>{{cite book|title=Pakistan Illustrated - Volume 13, Issue 8|website=S. K. Shahab|page=65}}</ref>
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|6945180}}

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[[Category:1927 births]]
[[Category:1996 deaths]]
[[Category:Muhajir people]]
[[Category:Pakistani feminist writers]]
[[Category:Pakistani women short story writers]]
[[Category:Urdu-language novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Pakistani women novelists]]
[[Category:Pakistani novelists]]
[[Category:20th-century Pakistani poets]]
[[Category:20th-century Pakistani women writers]]
[[Category:Poets from Karachi]]
[[Category:20th-century Pakistani short story writers]]

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