Nahid Akhtar (or Naheed Akhtar) is a Pakistani playback singer. She was discovered by veteran musician M. Ashraf as a teenage sensation in the mid-1970s. Naheed Akhtar was a successful replacement for Runa Laila, who left Pakistan the same year. Her debut film was "Nanha Farishta" in 1974 and that year she climbed to the top with super hit songs in the film "Shama". Her songs have been featured in 393 films (207 Urdu, 183 Punjabi, 3 Pashto) released between 1974 and 1992. Journalist Asif Ali Pota married her in the mid-1980s, after which she left the film scene. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.