Tribute

The passing away of Amjad Islam Amjad has created a vacuum in Pakistan’s literary scene.

With the death of Byram D. Avari, a long tradition of hospitality, social service and academic patronage has come to an end.

Referred to as Baba, Byram D Avari always kept a fatherly hand on the less privileged.

This accomplished daughter of Pakistan spread love and affection all around.

She set the tone for a new age.

Bilquis Edhi, a selfless philanthropist and social worker, passed away in Karachi at the age of 74. She was a celebrated woman, helping Pakistan’s poor and deprived women and children, while working side by side with her late husband, Abdus Sattar Edhi and even after his death.

Together, we traversed the same broken road for 13 years to meet our mother in her resting place; now I traverse it to meet both.

The dawn of Sunday, October 10, 2021, brought about the demise of the brightest star of the country, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan.

How quickly time flies. Recalling exact dates of past events is more of a Herculean task for me, but it was a memorable day somewhere in the late 1960s when I first met Wajid Shamsul Hasan in Karachi in his Daily News office.

When a journalist dies, a whole era ends with him.

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