Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Eminent journalist, short story writer, Progressive forces Hameed Akhtar’s death

Karachi Eminent journalist, short story writer, and a stalwart of Progressive Writers’ Movement (PWM) bowed out on Sunday night in Lahore leaving tens of thousands of enlightened and progressive people in the Subcontinent and abroad mourning.

I first met Hameed Akhtar at the residence of (late) Mumtaz Noorani in the 1970s in Qasre Zainab situated on Club Road.

He had developed a cyst and doctors were suspecting it was cancer but then the cyst was removed and he became as active as

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