Renowned poet Naseer Turabi passes away Late writer penned down popular ghazal, 'Wo Humsafar Tha' after creation of Bangladesh KARACHI: Renowned poet, author and intellectual, Naseer Turabi, passed away in Karachi on Sunday after succumbing to ill health. Turabi was 75-years-old and will be laid to rest at Wadi-a-Hussain graveyard today (Monday) after funeral prayers at Zuhr at Imambargah Shuhada-e-Karbala in Federal B Area Ancholi. The late poet was the son of famed Urdu poet, linguist, lexicographer and famous religious speaker Allama Rashid Turabi. Turabi was born on June 15, 1945, in Hyderabad Deccan, pre-partition India. He and his family migrated to Pakistan after independence. He started his journey as a poet in 1962 and did his Masters in Public Relations from the University of Karachi in 1968.