Saheefa Jabbar Khattak

Khattak was born into a Pashtun family in Khanewal, Punjab. Khattak grew up in Lahore with her parents and a younger brother.^[5] She holds BS in Business Economics from Beaconhouse National University Lahore.^[6][7] In December 2017, she married Khawaja Khizer Hussain. According to Khattak, she met him during her university days. They married in an Islamic wedding ceremony, at Lahore, Pakistan.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Khattak started her career as a fashion model and appeared in several television commercials. She is noted for her short hair looks on the ramp.^[12][13] After receiving an award for Best Emerging Talent at Lux Style Awards and Hum Awards, she move on to acting and made her debut with Momina Duraid's Teri Meri Kahani, where she played a lead character of Deena opposite Azfar Rehman and Saboor Aly. The serial ran for 36 Episodes on Hum TV.^[14][15] It was followed by another lead role in ARY Digital's social drama Beti.^[16] An Idream Entertainment's production, Beti was a critical and commercially hit. Her role as Mariam was praised by critics.^[17][18] She then portrayed a young to old woman who faces hardships of her single mistake in melodrama Bhool.^[19]

In 2024, she returned to television after four years in Green Entertainment's Ramadan special Rafta Rafta as a feisty and haughty landlady.^[20]

In 2025, Khattak faced backlash after criticising her house help on Instagram and shared personal details about her living conditions without consent. Many social media users deemed Khattak’s tone inappropriate, calling her actions invasive and patronising.^[21]

In 2026, Khattak shared a clip on Instagram promoting her newly opened café in which she discussed her difficulties in recruiting staff and said she wanted “honest” workers and expressed a preference for Pathan men because she did “not trust Punjabi and Urdu‑speaking people”. Social media users criticised her for what they described as stereotyping and “racist” language, arguing that her comments were divisive and unfairly generalised entire communities. Some commentators called for a boycott of her new business, with negative reviews and debates now trending online.^[22][23]

The backlash has been intensified by an earlier incident, recently reshared online, in which Khattak faced criticism for mocking a worker cleaning a window on her shooting set — a row that sparked charges of classism and raised questions about the treatment of lower-income workers by affluent influencers.^[22]