Naushaba Burney

Naushaba Burney (November 1932 – 11 February 2016) was a journalist and a social activist from Pakistan. She was the country's first female journalist.

Background Burney was born in Nagpur, Dawn newspaper

Death and legacy Naushaba Burney died after an asthma attack at South City Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan at age 83. She was hospitalized a day earlier due to a pneumonia infection.

Pakistan's noted journalist and her former colleague at Dawn newspaper, Zubeida Mustafa remembered her being a close friend while working at this newspaper in the mid-1990s. According to her she was a fine person who had a lot of courage.