The 13th death anniversary of veteran film actress Salma Mumtaz is being observed today.

She was born in 1926 in Jalandhar and she moved to Pakistan after partition and settled in Lahore.

Salma Mumtaz made her film debut as an actress in the 1960 Urdu language film, Neelofar.

She performed in more than three hundred Punjabi language films during her career.

Some of her best known films include Dil Mera Dharkan Teri, Heer Ranjha and Sheran Di Jori.

Salma Mumtaz also worked behind the camera as a film director and producer. Salma Mumtaz died in Lahore on this day in 2012 at the age of 85.