Nadia Khan

For the British Pakistani soccer player, see Nadia Khan (footballer).

Nadia Khan
نادیہ خان
Born22 May 1979 (1979-05-22) (age 46)
Quetta, Pakistan
OccupationsTV presenter, actor, producer
Years active1993–present
Spouse(s)
Khawar Iqbal
​
(m. 1990)​
(divorced)
Faisal Mumtaz Rao
​
(m. 2020)​
Children3
RelativesMumtaz Hamid Rao (father-in-law)

Nadia Khan (born 22 May 1979) is a Pakistani television actress, presenter and producer. She is best known for hosting the Nadia Khan Show (2006–2013) and starring in Bandhan (1998), Aisi Hai Tanhai (2017), Kam Zarf (2019) and Dolly Darling (2019). She also started a YouTube channel OutStyle in 2017.[1][2][3][4]

Early life and education

Nadia Khan was born in Quetta, Pakistan to a Niazi family, one of the largest Pashtun tribes predominately residing in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. Her father, Mohammed Aslam Khan, is a retired army colonel from Hoshiarpur, British India, and her mother, Tahira Khan, is a housewife from Sahiwal, Pakistan.[5][6] Her father migrated to Lahore, Pakistan during the 1947 Partition of India and studied at Chistia High School before joining the Attabad-based Pakistan Military Academy in 1956. He served in the Pakistan Armed Forces from 1959 to 1986.[7]

Khan completed her schooling from Federal Government Postgraduate College for Women, also known as C.B. College, that started as a small girls’ school on 26 Feb 1952 by the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB).[8]

Career

1990s: Television debut and early work

Khan made her television debut in 1993 with Daak Time (1993–1995), a Pakistani children’s show hosted by Farooq Qaiser featuring an anthropomorphic puppet Uncle Sargam, that aired on Network Television Marketing (NTM).[9][10] She was cast in Pal Do Pal (1995), a romantic-drama written by Haseena Moin and directed by Syed Ali Bukhari.[1][11] She later appeared in Bharam (1997), Mahrukh (1997), and Bandhan (1998),[1] for which she won the PTV Best Actress Award, Laag (1998–2000), Des Pardes (1999), Manzilein (2000).

2000–2015: Return from hiatus and success as a presenter

In 2003, Khan began hosting ARY Digital's morning show Breakfast with Nadia comprising segments on celebrities, culture, and daily life. She moved to Geo Entertainment in 2006 to host the Nadia Khan Show, interviewing a variety of Pakistani celebrities, artists, performers, religious leaders, athletes and politicians including Fawad Khan, Iman Ali, Atif Aslam, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shahid Afridi, Imran Khan, Bobby Deol, Farida Jalal, and Saroj Khan. Originally airing from 2006 to 2010, the show returned for a second and third season in 2012 and 2013 before being cancelled. Khan won two Masala Lifestyle Awards, organized by Dubai-based ITP Media Group and Masala! magazine, for the Best TV Presenter in 2008 and 2009.[12]

During this time, she also starred in Haseeb Hassan's Koi To Ho (2005), Faisal Qureshi's Main Aur Tum (2008), and Ye Hai Zindagi (2008). In August 2011, Khan hosted the Eid Transmission on Dunya News. She hosted Croron Mein Khel, a game show, on BOL Entertainment.

In January 2018, Khan became the first Pakistani beauty, fashion and lifestyle YouTube influencer to reach 100,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, Outstyle.[13][14]

In 2019, she started a morning show again on PTV named Morning @ home.[15]

Personal life

In the 1990s, Khan married Khawar Iqbal, with whom she has two children. The couple divorced after ten years.[16] She married Faisal Mumtaz Rao, a retired Pakistan Air Force fighter pilot and son of Pakistani electronic media journalist Mumtaz Hamid Rao, in December 2020.[17] She adopted her third child in 2020, when he was 20 days old.[18]

Khan describes herself as “realistic feminist” and advocates for female emancipation over imposing a level of moral culpability on men at large.[2]

Filmography

Television

Year Drama Role Writer Director Broadcasting network Notes
1995 Pal do Pal Rameen Haseena Moin Mohsin PTV
1996 Baandhan Farry Bushra Rahman Tariq Mairaj PTV PTV Best Actress Award
1997 Bharam Zarmina Izhar Bobby M.Izhar Bobby PTV PTV Classic Drama Award
1997 Mahrukh Mahrukh Aftab Ahmed Arshi Bhai PTV
1999 Des Pardes Sara Haseena Moin Ali Rizvi PTV
1998 Laag Safia Rauf Khalid Rauf Khalid PTV
2000 Manzilein Ghazal Seema Ghazal Fahim Burny PTV
2005 Koi To Ho[1] Yasmeen Danish Javed Haseeb Hassan ARY Digital
2008 Main Aur Tum Radha Aljaz Imran Faisal Qureshi ARY Digital Episode Sitaara Plus
2008 Yeh Zindagi Hai Herself Fizza Jaffri Kamran Akbar Khan Geo TV Guest appearance
2017 Aisi Hai Tanhai[2] Kinza Mohsin Ali Badar Mehmood ARY Digital [19]
2018 Zun Mureed[2] Amna Mufti Syed Ahmed Kamran Hum TV [20]
2018 Kaisi Aurat Hoon Main[2] Maham Saima Akram Chudhery Fahim Burney Hum TV [21]
2018 Khana Khud Garam Karo Jamila Kashif Saleem Kashif Saleem ARY Digital Telefilm[22]
2019 Kam Zarf Aima Seema Munaf Zeeshan Ahmed Geo Entertainment [23]
2019 Jhanka Tanki Neeli Misbah Ali Syed Kashif Saleem ARY Digital Telefilm
2019 Dolly Darling Dolly Dr. Muhammad Younis Butt Muhammad Iftikhar Iffi Geo Entertainment
2022 Pehchaan Safina Rubina Kabira Khan Asad Jabal Hum TV
Wehshi Muneera Shumaila Zaidi Iqbal Hussain

Talk shows

Year Show Type Broadcasting network Notes
1993–1995 Daak Time (Mail Time) with Uncle Sargam[5] Children Choice STN/NTM Khan's hosting debut
2003–2006 Breakfast with Nadia[5] Morning show ARY Digital
2006–2010 Nadia Khan Show[1] Morning show Geo TV Masala TV Award For Best TV Presenter 2008[12] and Masala TV Award For Best TV Presenter 2009[24]
2011 Eid with Nadia Khan[5] Eid special show Dunya News
2012–2013 [[Nadia Khan Show[5]|The Nadia Khan Show (season 2)]] Talk show (weekend nights) Geo Entertainment
2015 Nadia Khan Show (season 3) Morning show Geo Entertainment
2018 Croron Mein Khel Game Show BOL Entertainment
2019–2020 Morning @ Home Morning Talkshow PTV Home

Awards and recognition

PTV awards

Winner
  • 1997: Best Actor (Female); Bandhan[5][25]

Masala Lifestyle awards

Winner

References

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  9. ^ Hamid, Talha bin (26 May 2021). "Puppeteer Extraordinaire". Aurora Magazine. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
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  14. ^ "After doing three tragic dramas, Nadia Khan wears a fresh and lively look!". The Nation. 13 May 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
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  23. ^ "My character in 'Kam Zarf' is negative yet pitiable: Nadia Khan". Daily Times. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  24. ^ Masala Lifestyle Awards 2009. masala.com
  25. ^ "Nadia Khan | Fashion47". Fashion47.pk. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
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