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Kasauti-fame scholar Obaidullah Baig dies

KARACHI: Distinguished scholar, documentary filmmaker, media person and novelist Obaidullah Baig died of cancer on Friday at 5.30am. He was 75. He is survived by his wife, Salma Baig, who once hosted a show on PTV, and three daughters. Born in India in 1936, Baig was in his early twenties when he wrote his first […]


Tribute paid to Obaidullah Baig

KARACHI: Eminent scholar Obaidullah Baig’s death on Friday morning sent a shockwave across the country. As soon as the news of his death broke, friends and relatives thronged to his Clifton residence. Speaking to Dawn, a media person and close friend of Obaidullah Baig, Ghazi Salahuddin, said: “I don’t think there was anyone else other […]


Journalist Mueen Ahmad dies of a cardiac arrest

LAHORE: Senior journalist Mueen Ahmad of Geo News died of a cardiac arrest while swimming at a local hotel on Friday evening. Mueen suffered heart attack as he dived into the pool. He was taken to Ganga Ram Hospital but could not survive. Son of a lawyer, Mueen, 40, had joined The News as a […]


Poet Afaq Siddiqui passes away

KARACHI: Noted scholar, poet and researcher Prof Afaq Siddiqui passed away after a protracted illness here on Sunday. He was 84. He was born in Farrukhabad (UP), India, in 1928. He graduated from Aligarh. After partition he migrated to Pakistan. His father, who was employed with the Indian railway, tried to stop him but he […]


PPP leader Fauzia Wahab passes away

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Fauzia Wahab passed away on Sunday in a private hospital of Karachi. PPP leader Waqar Mehdi officially announced her death. Wahab was admitted in a private hospital on May 27 due to her sudden illness. She was under treatment since then. She had undergone three operations in that time […]


Ghazal maestro Mehdi Hassan is no more

Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Iconic vocalist and a legend in ghazal singing Mehdi Hassan breathed his last here on Wednesday. He was 85. Mehdi Hassan was admitted to the Aga Khan University Hospital two weeks back. He was suffering from multiple ailments, including lung and chest infections. His condition worsened on Wednesday morning and he passed […]


Balochistan journalist dead

QUETTA: Haji Fayyaz Hasan Sajjad, a senior journalist, passed away here on Wednesday. He was about 70.He started his career as a sports writer during the late 60s and worked as a senior reporter of daily Jang in Quetta for 40 years. According to family sources, Haji Sajjad was taken to Civil Hospital after suffering […]


Noted actor Ibrahim Nafees passes away

KARACHI: Noted film, television and stage actor Ibrahim Nafees passed away after a protracted illness here on Sunday. He was in his mid-70s. He is survived by a wife, two sons and a daughter. Ibrahim Nafees was born in Agra, India. After migrating to Pakistan he joined show business. He worked on Radio Pakistan Hyderabad […]


Noted artist Lubna Agha passes away

KARACHI: Prominent Pakistani-American artist Lubna Agha died on Sunday morning in Boston, US, according to reports reaching Karachi. Born in Quetta in 1949, Lubna Latif, as she was known before she got married to art writer Yusuf Agha in 1974, completed her schooling in Karachi. She graduated from the Karachi School of Art in 1967. […]


Lubna Agha loses her final battle

Asif Noorani AMONG the top ranking Pakistani-American artists, Lubna Agha, who sadly passed away on Sunday in Boston, did not opt to convey her themes to Western art enthusiasts through traditional genres like miniatures, but chose to communicate through an idiom which was unique and, at the same time, not totally alien to them. She […]


Hameed Jhelumi laid to rest

LAHORE: Veteran journalist and former chief editor of defunct daily Imroze Hameed Jhelumi, who died here on Thursday, was laid to rest in Miani Sahib Graveyard on Friday. He was 86. A large number of journalists, friends and relatives attended his funeral prayers at a mosque near his Riwaz Garden residence. Hameed Jhelumi was admitted […]


Popular vocalist commits suicide

HYDERABAD: Famous Sindhi vocalist Master Manzoor was found dead in mysterious circumstances in his house in Qasimabad on Sunday. He was 42. Nasim Nagar police quoted Master Manzoor’s maternal uncle as saying that he had committed suicide. A pistol was found near the body. His youngest son who was sleeping with him informed his uncle […]


Pashto poet breathes his last in Karak

KARAK: Renowned Pashto poet Said Hassan Ustad died after protracted illness at a hospital in Peshawar on Wednesday. He was 88. He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard at Latambar. A large number of his fans, writers, local people and elders of the area attended his funeral prayers. Said Hassan Ustad was author […]


Senior journalist passes away

LAHORE: Senior journalist Abdul Rashid Ghazi, member of the executive committee of All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) and chief editor of Daily Business Report, passed away on Wednesday afternoon due to cardiac arrest. The APNS President, Sarmad Ali, expressed his condolence over the death, and eulogised the services of the late journalist for regional press […]