Naheed Akhtar was discovered by veteran musician M. Ashraf as a teenage sensation in the mid 70s. She became a threat to Madam Noor Jehan and for a while she dominated Urdu film music.
Naheed Akhtar was a successful replacement for Runa Laila who left Pakistan same year. Inaugural released film was "Nanha Farishta" in 1974 and in the same year she climb to the top with super hit songs in film "Shama", as:
Kisi meharban ne aa ke meri zindgi saja di..
...and that "Meharban" was journalist Asif Ali Pota who married her in the mid 80s and then she left the film scene.