Flashback: A female physician

Dr Dilshad Begum is pictured treating a patient in her private clinic, the Shad Nursing Home, in Karachi

This photograph of physician Dr Dilshad Begum appeared in Life magazine’s ‘The World’s Great Religions’ issue in March 1974. Here, she is pictured treating a patient in her private clinic, the Shad Nursing Home, in Karachi.

PHOTO: SWALEHA ALAM SHAHZADA

CONCEPT: SANAM MAHER

DESIGN: SAMRA AMIR

This August, The Express Tribune will feature photographs from contributions to an open call for images from the struggle for independence and Pakistan’s formative years.

Concept: Sanam Maher

Published in The Express Tribune, August 19^th, 2014.