Saira Habeeb is the widow of Hassan Habeeb and was the mother to Imran and Rana Habeeb.
In November 2016, Saira and her husband were invited to celebrate their daughter's engagement to Zeedan Nazir. However, the engagement party ended suddenly when Zeedan's grandmother Yasmeen exposed her cheating husband Sharif's seven-year affair with her best friend Sonia Rahman.
In light of his grandfather's betrayal, Zeedan began having doubts about his wedding to Rana. Even though Yasmeen had started pawning her valuables to pay for the wedding, and Saira and Hassan had already began to organise the event, Zeedan confessed his true feelings to Rana - to which she furiously replied that she never wanted to see him again.
Saira and Hassan were not happy about the cancellation of the wedding and blamed Rana. Later, when it was revealed that Zeedan did actually love Rana, the Habeebs, Yasmeen and Leanne Battersby all helped to organise the wedding. Zeedan and Rana were married later that day and the Habeebs congratulated their daughter. Rana believed it to be the first compliment she'd ever received from her mother.
In February 2018, Saira and Hassan returned to the street and were stunned to find out that Rana had been having an affair with Kate Connor which disgusted them as Kate was a woman and same sex relationships were shamed in their family. Hassan offered Zeedan a deal whereby if he and Rana stayed together for at least a year they would fund his business. Zeedan was in agreement, however the couple went behind their back as Rana continued to see Kate. When they found out about this it infuriated them so Saira came up with a plan to abduct Rana and send her to Pakistan but this plan was stopped by Kate, Zeedan, Yasmeen and Imran. After this they officially disowned Rana and Imran responded by disowning his parents himself. Later on, Kate had Saira arrested for attempted abduction, although the charges were subsequently dropped.
In August, Hassan would suffer a stroke on his 60th birthday in which Saira would blame Rana for and thus Rana had to lie to her mother by saying she had split up with Kate in order to be by her father's bedside. A week later, Hassan passed away in hospital, it took weeks until Rana told her mum the truth about her and Kate never splitting up which again made Saira outraged.
Rana was killed in the Underworld roof collapse in March 2019 which bought Saira back to the street, however she immediately got into a massive argument with Imran who didn't think his mother should be allowed near Rana's funeral. He eventually came round but she was determined to keep Kate away from the service which disgusted Imran. Eventually Saira allowed Kate to attend the funeral as Imran gave her one last chance to do the right thing. Saira left again shortly after the service.
Saira returned again three years later in June 2022 after Imran was killed in a car crash. Now heartbroken after losing two children, she paid Imran's wife Toyah a visit, only to discover she had a grandson called Alfie. She then said that Imran - like Rana - would have a Muslim funeral, but with Imran not being very religious, Toyah opted against it and Saira accepted Toyah's wishes.
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