Shahina Agha Ghazanfar

Shahina Agha Ghazanfar (born 1949) is a Pakistani botanist and author best known for her work on plants from the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan and East Africa.

Professional life Ghazanfar lectured in botany at Kinnaird College in Lahore and at State University of New York. She then worked as a curator and researcher at the National Herbarium in Islamabad. She worked there until 1997, creating a herbarium (the second in the country) and supporting the National Herbarium of Oman (in the Museum of Natural History) by providing curatorial support. Ghazanfar edited the Horticultural Association of Oman and Historical Association of Oman newsletters.

From 2011, she worked extensively on the Flora of Iraq project.