Murshid was a broadcaster for
All India Radio. Notably, she was the first Muslim woman to work for this establishment. In East Pakistan, Murshid continued to work for the media, broadcasting for Radio Pakistan and rising to become a programme producer that brought her into contact with figures such as
Shamsul Huda,
Laila Arjumand Banu,
Laila Samad, and
Kamal Lohani. She became Principal of Syedunnesa Girls' High School in Barisal, and later taught at various institutions in Dhaka, such as
Kamrunnessa Government Girls High School,
Viqarunnisa Noon School and College and
Holy Cross College. She left politics after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the jail killings of four key cabinet ministers, including Tajuddin Ahmed, prime minister of Bangladesh in exile, and Syed Nazrul Islam, former acting president of Bangladesh, in exile in 1975. In 1985, Murshid brought out a Bangla periodical called Ekal and became its editor. Later renamed
Edesh Ekal, it focused not just on the problems of women, but also explored various social and political issues that confronted Bangladesh, including violence, representation, corruption and democratic deficit. Among her notable contributions to the journal were a series of interviews of personalities like the writer Nirad Choudhury, once the personal secretary of
A. K. Fazlul Huq of the
Krishak Proja Party, poet
Shamsur Rahman and painter
Quamrul Hassan, who incidentally had illustrated the cover page of her journal. The journal folded in 1991, due in part to financial constraints and in part to weariness that was multiplied by the hardship faced by the middle classes after the big floods of 1988, wrote Noorjehan. Murshid was the first President of the
Bangladesh Mahila Samity, the founder President of
Azimpur Ladies Club, the founder of
Agrani Balika Bidyalay, a founder member of
Birdem Diabetic Clinic, a sponsor of
Ain-o-Shalish Kendra at its infancy, the founder of
Sreyoshi, a club for the wives of Dhaka University teachers. Notably, the request of the ladies to seal one of the entrances to the university compound and its subsequent accomplishment saved the life of Noor and her family on 26 March 1971 at the start of
Operation Searchlight. She was the first Bengali Muslim woman to act on stage in East Pakistan in 1949. ==Personal life==