LAHORE: The newly appointed Punjab caretaker Health and Education Minister, Salima Hashmi is a well-known artist, cultural writer, painter and an anti-nuclear weapons activist. She is the eldest daughter of one of Pakistan’s most renowned poets, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and the British-born Alys Faiz.
She was about eight years old when Faiz Ahmed Faiz was imprisoned for his political views. During the repressive years of General Zia-ul-Haq rule, Salima’s father had to go into self-exile as a result
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