Muneeza Hashmi

Early life and education Muneeza was born in 1946, in before-the-partition Shimla, India to parents Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Alys Faiz. She is the younger sister of Salima Hashmi, a painter and actress. Her mother, Alys Faiz, was a sister of Christobel Taseer, mother of Salman Taseer, the former Governor of Punjab, Pakistan.

Muneeza migrated with her family to Lahore during the partition of India in 1947 and was raised in Lahore.

She received her early education from Kinnaird College for Women, and her Master's from University of the Punjab. She completed her second Master's degree in Education from the University of Hawaii, USA in 1981. Later, she returned as board president when the CBA rebranded itself as the Public Media Alliance.

She was appointed to hold the inaugural Benazir Bhutto Chair for Peace, Reconciliation and Development at the Lahore College for Women University in 2013.

In August 2019, Hashmi became the chairperson of the board of governors of the Lahore Arts Council. She is the first woman to hold the board chair.

In 2025 she was cast in a web series Fruit Chaat in which she portrayed the role of a mother figure to a girl who has a disability problem later she starts her own business it aired on ZEE5.

Personal life Hashmi was born to Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Alys Faiz in 1946. She has an older sister, Salima Hashmi, who is an acclaimed artist, educator, and activist. She married Humair Hashmi and has two sons, Dr. Ali Madeeh Hashmi, a psychiatrist and writer and Adeel Hashmi, an actor, producer, and screenwriter.

Filmography Television series YearTitleRoleNetwork 1973 Taal Matol Various PTV 1974 Makoos Raabtey Angie 1996 Paani Per Likha Tha Aliya

Web series YearTitleRoleNetwork2025 Fruit Chaat Madame ZEE5

Film YearTitleRoleLanguage 1976 Beyond the Last Mountain Friend English

Awards and honours Hashmi received the Pride of Performance award by the President of Pakistan in 2003 for excellence in art. She was awarded the Japanese broadcaster NHK's President of NHK Prize for "outstanding achievements in educational media". "Hashmi was also awarded the NHK Prize for her role in women empowerment and raising human rights awareness".