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Illustrious Urdu writer, satirist Mushtaq Yousufi passes away

KARACHI: Prolific Urdu writer Mushtaq Yousufi passed away in a local hospital on Wednesday. He was 94. He has bee
Published June 20, 2018

KARACHI: Prolific Urdu writer Mushtaq Yousufi passed away in a local hospital on Wednesday. He was 94.

He has been admitted in a local hospital of Clifton due to pneumonia where he breathed his last today.

Yousufi was born on September 4, 1923 in Jaipur, He came to Karachi after the partition and joined banking profession.

He wrote five bestseller books in Urdu. He was bestowed with Hilal e Imtiaz and Sitara e Imtiaz for his services in literature.

Copyright PPI (Pakistan Press International), 2018

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