"Zara Sheikh is a Pakistani model, actress and singer. Sheikh has acted in films such as Tere Pyar Mein (2000), Salakhain (2004) and Laaj (2003).[1] Zara Sheikh won the Nigar Award for Best Actress in film 'Tere Pyar Mein (2000). Sheikh made her cinema screen debut in 2000, through film director Hassan Askari's Tere Pyar Mein, in which she played the role of an Indian Sikh girl, who falls in love with a Pakistani banker. Sheikh received the Best Actress award for her role in the film. In 2002, she appeared in Sajjad Gul's Chalo Ishq Larain . A year later, in 2003, Sheikh played the part of a Hindu girl, Ram Khori, who converts to Islam - in Laaj, (means Honour in English), a love tale set in the backdrop of 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. In 2004, Sheikh worked in the 150 minute, Shahzad Rafique-directed Salakhain (translated as The Bars).