Remembering an untainted officer
May 13, 2021
One isn’t aware of any other cop in Pakistan who served as the inspector general of police of three provinces. It is also rare to find a policeman who commanded the Frontier Constabulary as well as the National Police Academy and remained a federal secretary, caretaker provincial minister and inspector general of prisons.
Muhammad Abbas Khan, who died recently at the age of 82 due to Covid-19, held all these positions and achieved a lot more in an illustrious career.
He served as the police chief of his native Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as well as Punjab and Sindh. In fact, he served twice as the IGP of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), known at the time as NWFP, once from November 1985 to June 1988 and then from January 1989 to September 1990.
Eminent painter Qudsia Nisar remembered
Karachi
May 6, 2021
The recipient of the Presidential Pride of Performance Award in 2018, Qudsia Nisar, who was a preeminent painter of Pakistan, passed away in Islamabad on 27th April 2021, according to a statement issued by the media manager, CMC (Pvt.) Ltd.
She had been suffering from various ailments for the past several months in Karachi until her brother and other family members moved her to Islamabad in March 2021, where, despite medical care, her condition worsened.
As a highly prolific painter, Qudsia Nisar was widely recognised by art critics as being the pioneer of using water colour in Pakistan to express abstract visions of modern art without using conventional figures and forms.
Former Dunedin mayor Dave Cull remembered at town hall funeral service
3 May, 2021 05:30 AM
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Former Dunedin mayor Dave Cull was a fun-loving family man and industrious leader, mourners were told at his funeral today. Photo / Peter McIntosh
Former Dunedin mayor Dave Cull was a fun-loving family man and industrious leader, mourners were told at his funeral today. Photo / Peter McIntosh
Otago Daily Times
By: Grant Miller
Former Dunedin mayor Dave Cull was a fun-loving family man and industrious leader, mourners were told at his funeral today.
Hundreds of people packed into the Dunedin Town Hall to celebrate Cull s life.
Qissa Khwani firing victims remembered
Peshawar
April 24, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Gandhara Hindko Board, a literary and cultural organization, on Friday paid rich tributes to the scores of people who had lost lives in the firing resorted by the British soldiers in Qissa Khwani in Peshawar on April 23, 1930.
A delegation led by senior Hindko language research scholar and general secretary of the board, Muhammad Ziauddin, visited the ‘Yadgar-e-Shaheedaan’ or martyrs memorials erected at the historic bazaar in memory of those who either embraced martyrdom or were injured in the firing.
The occupying British soldiers had opened fire on the freedom-loving citizens in Peshawar 91 years ago who were protesting the oppressive Colonial policies. As many as 400 people were killed on the day, though the official account had put the toll at 179.