Nadira Naipaul
Nadira, Lady Naipaul, is a Pakistani journalist and the widow of novelist Sir V. S. Naipaul.
She was born in Mombasa, Kenya. Her brother Ameer Faisal Alavi was a Pakistan Army two-star general, assassinated in 2008.
She worked as a journalist for Pakistani newspaper The Nation for ten years before meeting Naipaul. They married in 1996, two months after the death of Naipaul's first wife, Patricia Hale.
She was previously married at the age of 16 in Pakistan to engineer Agha Hashim, who was 26 years her senior. Nadira and Hashim had two daughters, Gul Zehra and Sumar Zahra, who lived with various relatives after the marriage ended. Nadira later married Iqbal Shah and had a daughter Maleeha, whom V. S. Naipaul later adopted, and a son Nadir Shah.
