Sufia Karim

Infobox EastEnders character 2


character_name=Sufia Karim
actor_name=Rani Singh
years=1988–1990
status= Married
home= Bristol
occupation= Shop proprietor
family=
husband=Ashraf Karim
sons=Sohail Karim
daughters = Shireen Karim

Sufia Karim was a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera "EastEnders", a long-running serial drama about working class life in the East End of London, set in the fictional borough of Walford. The character was played by actress Rani Singh between 1988 and 1990.

Background

Sufia married her husband Ashraf in an arranged marriage. He was older than her, and moved to Britain in 1968, when she was a child still living in Bangladesh. They married in Bangladesh and moved to Britain in 1973, and had two children; Sohail and Shireen.

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Sufia made her first appearance in the serial in 1988, when she moved to Walford with her family.

In 1989 she discovered that Ashraf was having an affair with a woman named Stella. Sufia decided to leave Ashraf, but he talked her round and she stayed, as Ashraf and Stella's relationship had ended.

Ashraf and Sufia arranged a marriage for their daughter Shireen with a man named Jabbar Ahmed. Ashraf had started seeing Stella again, and Jabbar's family found out about his infidelity and called off the engagement. Sufia and Jabbar's mother helped Jabbar and Shireen to secretly continue with the engagement as they had fallen in love.

The Karims left Walford to live in Bristol in June 1990.