Renowned Urdu poet Naseer Turabi passes away at 75
His most famous work includes the ghazal Woh Humsafar Tha , which he wrote against the backdrop of the Dhaka Fall in 1971.
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KARACHI: India-born renowned Pakistani Urdu poet and author Naseer Turabi has died of a heart attack in Karachi.
He was 75.
Turabi, who was born on June 15, 1945 in Hyderabad Deccan, is survived by his wife and two sons, Dawn News reported on Monday.
He died of a heart attack here on Sunday evening, the paper said. Turabi was laid to rest at Wadi-a-Hussain graveyard here on Monday.
PAL to hold seminar on Ahmed Faraz on Jan 12
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Pakistan Academy of Letters will hold National Literary Seminar on Ahmed Faraz in connection with his 90th birth anniversary in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Minister for Federal Education and National History and Literary Heritage, Shafaqat Mehmood and Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz will be the chief Guest of the event.
PAL seminar
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Islamabad : Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) will hold a day-long National Literary Seminar to pay tribute to renowned Urdu and Sindhi poet Sheikh Ayaz on occasion of his 23 death anniversary on January 4 (Monday).
Well known scholars Fatima Hassan, Adal Somro and Ayaz Gul will be the chief guest of the seminar, an official said.
Eminent scholars will participate in seminar to shed light on his poetic vision and contribution towards Urdu and Sindhi poetry.
LAHORE: Punjabi short story writer and poet, retired Col Nadir Ali, was laid to rest at his ancestral village of Machhiyana in Gujrat district on Saturday.
He was suffering from chest congestion and had been admitted to the Combined Military Hospital here for around three weeks where he passed away early on Saturday. He had tested negative for Covid-19 twice during the last few days. He leaves behind a widow, a son and four daughters.
According to Nadir Ali’s son-in-law Moazzam Sheikh, he was born in Kohat in 1936. He went to school in his ancestral village in Gujrat and did LLB from the Aligarh College.
PAL condoles death of Nadeem Shafiq
Islamabad
December 29, 2020
Islamabad:Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) Chairman Dr. Yousuf Khushk on Monday expressed deep sorrow and grief over the demise of Dr. Nadeem Shafiq Malik, an educationist, writer, critic and researcher.
Chairman in his condolence message said that Dr. Nadeem Shafiq Malik was the competent Managing Director of Printing Corporation of Pakistan. He said that as the Federal Secretary National Heritage and Culture Division, Dr. Nadeem Shafiq Malik has run the PAL on the right lines and arranged many ceremonies in honor of founding father Quaid-e-Azam M. A. Jinnah and poet-philosopher Allama Iqbal especially on national days.