Pakistan's first woman photojournalist: inspired by the husband she lost to war

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Pakistan’s first woman photojournalist: inspired by the husband she lost to war

Saadia Sehar writes about the death of her husband, a Reuters photojournalist, and how she decided to remember him by pursuing photography herself

Link: http://www.journalism.co.uk/news-features/pakistan-039-s-first-woman-photojournalist-inspired-by-the-husband-she-lost-to-war/s5/a540997/

On 19 November 2001 I received a call from the Reuters Pakistan bureau telling me to pray for my husband, Afghan photographer Aziz Ullah Haidari. He was killed when a convoy of journalists was ambushed in Afghanistan.