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Renowned humourist Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi to be laid to rest in Karachi

Islamabad, June 21 (UNI) Renowned writer and humourist Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi, who passed away after a protracted illness, will be laid to rest in Karachi Thursday afternoon.
The 95-year-old celebrated satirist died on Wednesday, a report in Pakistan Daily Dawn said.
His namaz-e-janaza will be offered at Sultan Masjid in Defence after Zohar prayers, and he will be laid to rest in DHA Phase One graveyard.
Born on August 4, 1923, in the Tonk district of Rajasthan, India, Yousufi migrated to Karachi in 1956.
Yousufi, a banker by profession, was awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 1999 and the Hilal-i-Imtiaz in 2002 — the highest literary honour given by the government to civilians.
His Chiraagh Talay (1961) had established him as a humorist who knew how to use repartee and pun. His other works, Khakam Badahan (1970), Zarguzasht (1976) and Aab-i-Gum (1990) only reaffirmed his status as a great wit and a master prose writer of Urdu.
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