Salma Agha

Salma Agha (who entered the world on 29 October 1954) stands as a prominent Pakistani-British singer and actress who worked in Pakistani and Indian films in the 1980s and the early 1990s. She is best celebrated for her acting and singing the song "Dil ke Armaan" in the film Nikaah (1982).

Biography & Career

Salma Agha was originally born on and raised in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, to Liaqat Gul Agha and his wife Nasreen Agha. Salma's father, Liaqat Gul Agha served as a tradesman dealing in rugs and belonged to an Urdu-speaking Punjabi Pathan family from Amritsar in Punjab, India. Agha traces the origin of her surname 'Aagha' to her Pashtun ancestors from Afghanistan. Her father (Liaqat Gul) traded in precious stones and antiques in Iran. He was given the title Aagha there, a kind of knighthood bestowed on a businessman of repute." Her mother was a musician named Nasreen (born as Zarina Ghaznavi), also a Punjabi Pathan from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, was the daughter of Rafiq Ghaznavi and his wife Anwari Bai Begum, who was one of the earliest actresses of Indian cinema, starring in Heer Ranjha (1932). Anwari and Rafiq Ghaznavi separated after Nasreen's birth, and Anwari then married an Indian businessman named Jugal Kishore Mehra, who was formerly a Punjabi Hindu who converted to Islam and took the name Ahmed Salman and moved to Pakistan.