Amina Shafaat is a Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i former model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

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Biography

Shafaat attended Lahore Grammar School

Lahore Grammar School

Lahore Grammar School is a group of private fee-paying group of academic institutions based in city of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The system was established, in January 1979, at its 55 Main Gulberg campus. The institution provides education to both boys and girls until A Level...

 and is a graduate of Kinnaird College

Kinnaird College

Kinnaird College for Women is a college in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is partially semi- government institute recognized by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.-Early history:...

, Lahore

Lahore

Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

. She had no initial intentions of becoming a model or joining the entertainment business. Her discovery was accidental. A fashion photographer saw her at a party and made her a modeling offer, she initially refused. After taking permission from home, she started modeling. Her biggest break was the music video for Faakhir's song "Dilruba." Shafaat feels that it's the best part of her short career. The idea of the video was conceived, keeping her in mind.

She has worked with many photographers, including Khawer Riaz, Rehan Qureshi and Rizwan Beig. Shafaat is best known as the model who refused to wear sleeveless dresses. People in the fashion industry predicted her career will be short-lived and she would get very little work in the industry, yet she continued to be part of many TV commercials, including Pantene

Pantene

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, Everyday, Fair & Lovely, Lipton

Lipton

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, Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

, Paktel Tango and Nestle Pure Life to name a few. She was at her prime when she left modeling in early 2006.

Personal life

She is currently settled in Paris and working as a designer for her label 'Maryam & Amina Shafaat'. She has two younger sisters and a daughter named sarina.

External links

• http://www.mag4you.com/spotlight/spotlight.asp?title=Amina+Shafaat&content_id=4268&bhcp=1