Renowned writer, academic Shamim Hanafi passes away
By News Desk| Updated: 7th May 2021 10:37 pm IST Prof. Shamim Hanafi
Prof. Hanafi had been admitted to a hospital following the attack of COVID-19 a few days ago.
According to noted columnist Masoom Muradabadi Prof Hanafi had recently shifted from Zakir Bagh to a house which he had constructed in Jasola.
“I had known him for about three decades. About 25 years ago he had started writing a back page column for my newspaper Khabardar which became as popular as the column of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas in Urdu Blitz in the past,” Muradabadi wrote in an obituary.
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