Saeeda Mahmood

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Saeeda Mahmood
Born	Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Nationality	British Afghan
Occupation(s)	Journalist, presenter, newsreader
Employer	BBC World Service
Notable credit	Afghanistan Golden Age

Saeeda Mahmood is an Afghan broadcast journalist who worked for BBC World Service, Pashto Section for more than 25 years. Saeeda was born in Kandahar and brought up in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.^[1] In the 1960s, Saeeda’s was the first Afghan generation to think about a higher education within the country, rather than abroad in Beirut, or Delhi, or Istanbul.^[2]