Obituary

Shakeel was a multitalented performer who gave almost 60 years of his life to performing arts and played an important role in promoting Pakistani TV drama worldwide.

‘A good man is hard to find,’ says Flannery O’Connor, an American novelist,

Sultan Arshad lived a full life, a life we all aspire and try to live but very few see our dreams come true in our lifetime.

Mukarram Jah Bahadur, formally known as Nizam Mir Barkat Ali Khan Siddiqi Mukarram Jah Asaf Jah VIII, who was the titular 8th and last Nizam of the former princely state of Hyderabad in India, passed away in Turkey on January 12, 2023 at the age of 89. He was laid to rest with state honours next to his father Azam Jah in Istanbul, Turkey.

His contribution to this genre of art is enormous and many students owe their training and success to Zia Mohyeddin.

A man of many talents, Imran Aslam served a genuine example of what it means to be a dedicated journalist with absolute ethical boundaries and unquestioned moral rectitude.

The sudden demise of Javed Ansari, Editor of SouthAsia magazine, is a great loss to print journalism.