Zeenat

Zeenat Abdullah Channa (Sindhi: زينت عبداللٰه چنه January 04, 1919 – July 12, 1974) was an educationist and writer of Sehwan, Sindh, Pakistan. She was one of the first female writers who wrote Sindhi stories after the partition of India in 1947. She served as an editor of Monthly Magazine Marvi. She motivated parents of rural Sindh to educate their girls. She was a teacher and a story writer. She also wrote literary articles.

Zeenat-un-Nissa (Persian: زینت النساء‎ 5 October 1643 – 7 May 1721) was a Mughal princess and the second daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb and his chief consort Dilras Banu Begum. Her father conferred upon her the honorable title of Padshah Begum. Princess Zeenat-un-Nissa is known by historians for her piety and extensive charity.

Zeenat Quraishi Karzai (born 1970) is the wife of former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and was the First Lady of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014. Originally from the city of Kandahar, she moved to Kabul where she lived at the Presidential Palace with her husband and their four children. In 1993, she and her family escaped from the civil war to neighboring Quetta in Balochistan, Pakistan. She was a gynaecologist by profession, and has worked in hospitals treating Afghan refugees in Pakistan before she married Hamid Karzai.