Maureen Lines (1937-2017)[/caption] She was born in North London in 1937, but spend about 30 years of her life in Pakistan. She began travelling in Europe at the age of seventeen, lived in Paris and in 1961 immigrated to United States. Three years later she hitched-hiked across Turkey and Syria to Damascus and so began […]
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BOONI: Shahzad Qubad, son of late Zar Qubad Khan Lal, passed away due to cardiac arrest on Saturday-Sunday night. He was 40. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son. Shahzad worked with the First Micro-Finance Bank as a branch manager. His sudden death has shocked the people of the area.
He joined the Chitral Scouts in the early age of his life and was a part of the troops that took on the Dogra forces of the then Kashmir state in the mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in the 1948 Indo-Pakistan war. Sifat Ghazi used to say that the Chitralis valiantly fought against the enemy to liberate
In a tweet, his son Izhar Hunzai said the body of his father was being brought from Austin, US, for burial in his native town of Hunza. https://twitter.com/IzharH/status/820551115322363905 It may be noted that a couple of years ago, the government of Pakistan banned Khana-e-Farhang of Allama Hunzai and froze its accounts. Allama Hunzai wrote hundreds
DROSH: Muhammad Nawab Lal of Shahnigar Drosh passed away due to a heart attack on Wednesday. He was father of Muhammad Rahimuddin and Shakiruddin. He was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in the presence of a large number of people.]]>
KARACHI: Former president of the All Teachers Association, Chitral, Meraj Uddin, died of a heart attack in Karachi on Wednesday. He had come to Karachi from Chitral for a medical check-up and treatment. He worked as Senior English Teacher (SET) at the Centennial Model School Chitral and remained active for the protection of the rights
It is shocking news that Mr. Sirajud Din, a retired teacher of Miragram II, Yarkhun, has passed away due to heart failure on February 24. Mr. Siraj had served the area for a long period as a teacher starting from his posting to the Government High School Brep and retired from service after reaching superannuation
