Sahira is known for producing dramas and plays that highlighted social and political issues. Arab News said the move is part of a push by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the last three years to modernize the Kingdom where cinemas, public concerts and other forms of entertainment have been banned for decades.
Federal information minister Fawad Chaudhry announced during a visit to the Saudi capital of Riyadh that Islamabad would soon export its television series to the Kingdom.
The step was taken as part of a cultural exchange between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. In 2019, the series were also translated into Arabic, to play the drama in Saudi Arabia. The series succeeded even after two decades of its production.
The drama became Sahira's most notable work in her production career. Some of her best known dramas such as Tappish, Dhoop Kinaray, Aahat, Hawa Ki Beti, Nijaat and Zaibunnissa, Dhoop Kinaray (1987), written by Haseena Moin, and starred Rahat Kazmi and Marina Khan. She directed many dramas that went on to become a classic in the film industry. Sahira joined Pakistan television Karachi center as a permanent employee and worked as director. The highlighted women's rights and their imaging in Pakistan. but she made her debut as a director when she launched the series Hawa ke Naam. She had already directed a number of programmes after her first play. Later, Sahira realized her passion lay in directing content and soon she turned towards directing and producing dramas. Sahira became famous for her roles in Parchaiyan and Teesra Kinara alongside the actor Rahat Kazmi, who she later married in the late 1970s. Her first play was Qurbatein aur Faslay (1974), based on Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons, followed by Parchaiyan (1976), based on Henry James’ novel The Portrait of a Lady, which was followed by another series Teesra Kinara (1980). Sahira's career began in the 1970s when she started acting in PTV dramas at the PTV World in Rawalpindi.
Sahira and her brother also joined the acting field and both became prominent names in Pakistan's acting industry. Sahira and her brother Shaakir changed their surnames and became Sahira Ansari and Shakir Ansari. Sahira's mother, Mumtaz remarried a Pakistani entrepreneur with the surname Ansari. However, after her father Shyam's tragic death in 1951, her family moved to Lahore, which was part of the new state of Pakistan. Kazmi was born on 13 June 1946 in Bombay to Shyam and Mumtaz Qureshi (also known as Taaji), both actors and prominent figures in the film industry of British India.