Refat has a very unique and maverick take on life which comes out through her screenwriting. Born in England in the late 1960's she is the first generation of British Pakistani Muslim women who has lived through all the traumas life could throw at her. She lost her arm in a freak accident when she was three years old which changed her whole life.
She was the first person from her family to attend University where she did a degree in Social Work and later pioneered an Ethnic Minority Homecare Agency which she ran for six years. Her company staffed 40 care workers and around 120 clients with learning disabilities, mental health, and physical disabilities, elderly etc.
Refat went and did a short course in Nodia, Delhi at the Asian Academy for Film & Television where she wrote a few shorts and returned to England to do an Honours degree at the University of Bolton in Media, Writing and Production.
In her final year, Refat wrote her first radio play called Whose Side You on? and was listed in the top six of the BBC New Talent Award. She has since written sitcoms, plays that are awaiting production.
Refat met Paul Abbott, Jimmy McGovern and Willy Russell all who have been most encouraging.
"I write from what I know... by highlighting the issues ingrained in what life is really like in Pakistani Kashmiri family ..."
