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Bathinda: Indian screen legend Dilip Kumar was a fanboy of Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, whose daughter, 79-year-old professor Salima Hashmi, recalls Yusuf Khan’s reciting her father’s Urdu couplets from memory whenever she rewinds a tape from Mumbai. Speaking to the Times of India from Lahore, she recalled Dilip Kumar’s 1989 visit to Karachi with his wife, Saira Banu, and brother, Ahsan Khan, for a charity event to raise money for the patients of thalassaemia. She said: “He called my mother, Alys Faiz, to ask if he could come to our house in Lahore to do personal condolences for the demise of my father, although he had sent a message at Faiz Saab’s passing away in 1984. He requested to make it a private affair but the word got out and his admirers poured in from all over. Poet Qateel Shifai and our family doctor also queued up.”

Yusuf khanAhsan khanNorth west frontierFaiz saabSaira banuDilip kumarAlys faizQateel shifaiSalima hashmiFaiz ahmadPeshawar born indianயூசுப் காந்குசன் காந்வடக்கு மேற்கு எல்லைபைஜ் ஸாப்சாய்ரா பானு