Mahira Hafeez Khan (born 21 December 1984) is a Pakistani actress and former VJ. One of the nation's most popular and highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of several awards. Her father, Hafeez Khan, was born in Delhi during the British Raj, and migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India.
She has a younger brother, Hasaan Khan who is a journalist by profession. Khan attended the Foundation Public School in Karachi from where she did her O-levels at age 16. At the age of 17, Khan moved to California, United State for the higher education. She attended Saint Monica College in Los Angeles. She then enrolled in the University of Southern California for her Bachelor’s Degree. However she did not complete her degree and returned to Pakistan in 2008. During her studies in United States, Khan was a cashier at a Rite Aid store in Los Angeles and used to mop floors, clean toilets, run the till and shut the store at night.
Khan met her future husband Ali Askari in 2006 in Los Angeles. Some media reports says she met him at Indus TV studios. She married Askari in 2007 in a traditional Islamic wedding ceremony despite Khan's father being against this marriage. The couple divorced in 2015. Khan has a son with Ali Askari who was born in 2014.
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