LAHORE, Dec 12: Veteran film actor Ilyas Kashmiri passed away at his Gulberg-III residence after a long illness on Wednesday. He was 83. One of the most senior actors in the Pakistan film industry, Kashmiri had been ill and bed-ridden for the past six years, suffering from diabetes and other complexities stemming out of it. […]
KARACHI, Dec 6: Abdul Hameed Nizamani, elder brother of Dawn reporter Hassan Mansoor, died of cardiac arrest here on Thursday afternoon. He was 57. Mr Nizamani had the fatal heart attack while working in his real estate office in Lyari. He was immediately taken to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. He leaves […]
KARACHI: Senior journalist K.M. Sharif passed away here early Sunday morning due to cardiac arrest. He was 72. He leaves behind his wife, a son and four daughters. Sharif was suffering from multiple diseases, including heart condition, for quite some time. On Sunday morning, he suffered a major cardiac attack, which proved fatal. He breathed […]
KARACHI, Nov 22: Veteran radio newsreader Jahanara Sayeed died of ailments related to old age on Wednesday. She was 81. Born in Hyderabad Deccan in 1926, Ms Sayeed is survived by two sons. She was laid to rest at the Tariq Road graveyard on Thursday. According to a press release issued by the Pakistan Broadcasting […]
KARACHI: Veteran art performer and actor Shafi Muhammad Shah was laid to rest Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. in the Gizri Graveyard, Defence Phase IV. The 57-year old actor was born in a town called Kandiaro in Nushero Feroz. He left a widow, a son and two daughters, besides a large number of fans. “It […]
KARACHI, Nov 14: Mrs Tahira Abidi, wife of a noted Urdu writer and journalist, the late Hasan Abidi, died here on Wednesday. She will be laid to rest on Thursday after funeral prayers, which will be offered at the Ancholi Imambargah after Zuhar prayers. Mrs Abdi was a sister of Ms Hajira Masrur. Source: Dawn […]
THATTA, Nov 14: Great Tambooro player, Preen Palari, who would enthral audience by his deeply touching play on strings, died here on Wednesday after protracted illness. He leaves behind three sons and two daughters to mourn his death. His mortal remains were laid to rest in Dargah Satyoon near his native village Digar Palari in […]
KARACHI:Another scion of the renowned Kazi family of Hyderabad passed away in Los Angeles California on November 10. The death of Kazi Jawad Akbar who was the grandson of former media stalwarts and senior politicians, the late Kazi Abdul Majeed Abid and the late Kazi Mohammad Akbar came just nine months after the death of […]
KARACHI, Oct 24: Senior journalist and former Dawn staffer Syed Hamdan Amjad Ali, 68, died at a local hospital on Wednesday. He leaves his wife, a son and two daughters. He was admitted to hospital on Wednesday night for heart bypass surgery but died during the operation. His funeral prayers will be held in Masjid-i-Bilal, […]
Karachi:“I will not come home tonight and sleep as I have a lot of work to do.” These were 42-year-old Arif Khan’s last words to his wife, Gulshan, who doesn’t sleep till her husband comes home. Arif Khan is the cameraman, who was killed while capturing footage of the October 18 blasts on Thursday: an […]
THATTA: Noted young poet Habibullah Sanji Sujawal expired here on Thursday after a protracted illness. He was a cancer patient. The deceased was son of a famous Sindhi poet, Sarwech Sujawali, who is also popular for his revolutionary Sindhi poetry. Habibullah was buried in his ancestral graveyard near Sujawal. A large number of mourners attended […]
KARACHI, May 13: A senior journalist and former staff reporter of Dawn, G. D. Ghauri, died of a protracted illness here on Sunday afternoon. He was 79. He leaves a widow — Najma Ghauri, a retired associate professor of the Govt College for Women (Shahrah-i-Liaquat) – a son and a daughter. He was buried in […]
BADIN: President, Badin Press Club and renowned journalist, Abdullah Memon passed away on Saturday, May 5, 2007 of a heart attack at 1.35 a.m. He has been buried in his family graveyard, Shah Qadri, Badin. Journalists, citizens, and civil society organizations attended his funeral. Memon had worked for the Sindhi newspaper ‘Daily Ibrat’ for 35 […]
HYDERABAD (March 22 2007): Veteran journalist Saleem Qureshi passed away here on Wednesday evening. He was 82. Qureshi, a former secretary of Hyderabad Press Club, was suffering from kidney problem for the last two years and was under treatment of Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi. A few months back he received an attack of paralysis. During […]
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