Abida Sultan

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Abida Sultan (عابدہ سلطان) (born 1913, died 2002) was the eldest daughter of Hamidullah Khan, the last nawab of the Bhopal state. Abida Sultan was the presumptive heiress of the Bhopal throne. However, she gave up her right to the throne and migrated to the newly formed Pakistan in 1950.

In Pakistan, she joined the foreign service. Therefore, the Government of India excluded her from the succession and her younger sister Sajida succeeded her instead.

Abida Sultan had arrived in the newly created Pakistan at the age of 37, with a young son. She was to spend the greater part of her life in Pakistan. She died in Karachi in 2002. Her son, Shaharyar Khan, was to become the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan and then the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.