Quratulain Balouch honours 'Wo Humsafar Tha' poet Naseer Turabi on account of his death
The poet, author and intellectual passed away on Sunday
Renowned poet, author and intellectual, Naseer Turabi, passed away in Karachi on Sunday after succumbing to ill health.
Turabi was 75-years-old and laid to rest at Wadi-a-Hussain graveyard on Monday after funeral prayers at Zuhr at Imambargah Shuhada-e-Karbala in Federal B Area Ancholi.
His popular ghazal,
Wo Humsafar Tha, which he wrote after the split of East and West Pakistan in 1971, was later used as the soundtrack for Pakistani television serial,
Humsafar. It was crooned by renowned singer Quratulain Balouch, popularly known as QB, for the same. Turabi considered the Dhaka Fall a great historic tragedy and that was expressed in this popular ghazal of his.