Columnist Muhammad Tufail passes away
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LAHORE: Muhammad Tufail, Pa Ji, columnist and member of Jang newspaper team, died here on Wednesday.
He was 90. He had liver cirrhosis. On Sunday, he felt very unwell and after that his condition only deteriorated, The News learnt from the family. Almost till the end he came to office regularly and would walk by himself without the aid of another hand or stick. He will be long remembered for his remarkable cheerfulness which was contagious.
The first editorial published in Daily Jang in 1981 was written by him and he was in the Jang editorial team till the end. In the early days of Jang, he was among the people who would stand at Charing Cross, The Mall to sell Jang along with other team members. He engaged with the paper whole-heartedly as he worked with the reporting and the newsroom team.
Achakzai’s statement generated intense indignation among the wider circles of Punjabi literati
Last Sunday, Mehmood Khan Achakzai’s insinuation about Lahoris’ collusion with Hindus and Sikhs against Afghans stirred a heated response. I think by Lahoris he meant Punjabis in general. The people of the Punjab are frequently accused of not putting up a fight against invaders from the north.
Achakzai re-invented that allegation by accusing Punjabis (he called them Lahoris, though) of aiding and abetting Hindus and Sikhs to defeat Afghans. Thus, to him villainy of the Punjabis had been their collusion with Hindus and Sikhs against the Afghans and not what they are usually accused of.