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LAHORE: Indian East
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has condoled the death
of Pakistan’s eminent scholar and educationist Ms. Shaista
Habib.
Late Ms Shaista, who hailed from India held-Jammu was the wife
of noted scholar, Fakhar Zaman who is Chairman, World Punjabi
Congress.
"Her contribution towards the promotion and development of
Punjabi language would be ever remembered by one and all not
only in Pakistan but also in the entire Punjabi literary
world," he said in his condolence message to Zaman.
The East Punjab Chief Minister, who attended a Punjabi
Congress here few months ago, expressed his heartfelt
sympathies with the bereaved family and prayed to for the
grant of peace to the departed soul.
Sketch
Late Ms Shaista was the daughter of fêted poet and a pioneer
of Pakistan’s Writers Guild, Late Habib Kaifvi, who was a
noted scholar of the Himalayan State of Jammu and Kashmir.
With occupied-Jammu as his ancestral abode, late Habib Kaifvi
migrated to the famous industrial city of Pakistan—Sialkot
after a reign of terror was let loose on the innocent people
of the State by the last Dogra ruler of the State, Hari Singh
with a hideous connivance of his New Delhi masters, who
invaded the a part of the State with full might of arms and
arsenal.
Highly educated Shaista received her earlier education in
Sialkot, the home-town of the great Poet-Philosopher of the
East, Alama Iqbal [RA].
Later she shifted to Lahore for higher education along with
her life-time friend Noor Jehan, another illustrious and
distinguished daughter of Kashmir, who was the niece of the
venerated cerebral and intellectual, late Abdul Hamid Nizami
[RA]. Late Shaista lost her correlate, Noor Jehan a few years
ago as she [Noor Jehan] took off for eternity while in
Islamabad due to a toxic ailment.
Late Shaista was married to Pakistan’s celebrated theorist and
writer, Fakhar Zaman. She was suffering from the perilous
disease of cancer and breathed her last, after getting
succumbed to the ailment. Shaista authored numerous articles
on topics of human interests—with focus on the plight of the
poor. Pieces, inked by her as short stories are treated as
unique ones.
TIMES Group Condoles
TIMES Group of Publication has expressed deep shock and sorrow
over the sad demise of Ms Shaista Habib.
Editor of Pakistan’s first independent Daily web newspaper,
Mumtaz Hamid Rao, in a condolence message to Mr Fakhar Zaman
has said; ‘The death of Ms Shaista Habib brings to an end an
impressive epoch of literature and journalism in the State of
Jammu and Kashmir.’
Rao has prayed; ‘May Allah
Almighty bless the departed soul in eternal peace and give the
bereaved family courage and fortitude to bear this tragedy.’
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