Syed

27Jun

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High Profilers, Pakistan, Profiles

Syed Munawar Hasan, politician

Syed Munawar Hasan ‑ a Pakistani politician and the former Ameer (President) of Jamaat-e-Islami political party – died on 26 June 2020 from coronavirus complications. He served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1977. He died on 26 June 2020 after prolonged illness. Munawar Hasan was born in Delhi, British India on 5 August 1941. At the time of the partition of India, he migrated with his family and settled in Karachi. He obtained a Master's degree in sociology in 1963, and in Islamic Studies in 1966 from the University of Karachi. Munawar Hasan joined the National Students Federation, a student group, and was elected its president in 1959. The real change appeared in his life when he came closer to the activists of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba Pakistan ...

29May

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Fakhruddin Syed, journalist

Fakhruddin Syed, a Pakistani senior journalist of 92 News, died of COVID-19 on 28 May 2020. He had been admitted to the Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar after contracting the coronavirus and had been suffering from fever and severe chest pain for the week preceding his death.

21May

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Syed Fazal Agha, politician

Syed Muhammad Fazal Agha –a Pakistani politician from Pishin District of Balochistan province of Pakistan who served as Governor of Balochistan from August 18 to October 12 1999 – died on 20 May 2020 after contracting COVID-19. He also served as Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan from 1988-1991 from Balochistan. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan from 13 August 2018 till his death. Syed Fazal Agha was born in Killi Huramzai, Pishin District.He had political affiliation with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F). He participated in the 2008 election and 2013 elections but did not succeed. He was successful in the 2018 elections and was elected as member of Provincial Assembly of Balochistan for PB-20 (Pishin-III). ...

28Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Madeline Faith Kripke, book collector

Madeline Faith Kripke a book collector who held one of the world's largest collections of dictionaries died on April 25, 2020, due to complications of COVID-19. Madeline Kripke was born on September 9, 1943, in New London, Connecticut, to mother Dorothy Karp Kripke and father Myer S. Kripke, a rabbi. Kripke's brother was philosopher Saul Kripke, and her sister was Netta Kripke Stern. She graduated with a bachelor's in English from Barnard College. In fifth grade, she recalled receiving a Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary from her parents, which she said "unlocked the world for me". Kripke acquired a collection of approximately 20,000 dictionaries in her two-bedroom apartment. The oldest dictionary in her collection was a Latin dictionary published in 1502 by Ambrogio Calepino. Sh...

Dr Syed Zeeshan Haider, General Practitioner

8Apr

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Medics, Pakistan, Profiles, United Kingdom

Dr Syed Zeeshan Haider, General Practitioner

Dr Syed Zeeshan Haider passed away in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2020 from Covid-19. Dr. Haider, a British Pakistani, had been a General Practitioner for more than 50 years. Dr Haider passed away after fighting the deadly coronavirus at the Queen’s Hospital. Dr Haider, who was in his 80s and lived in Dagenham, Essex is the second Pakistani origin doctor to lay down his life against the deadly Covid-19. Previously, Dr Habib Zaidi, an elderly doctor from Southend was the first doctor in all of the UK to succumb to the viral disease. After developing symptoms of the virus, Dr Haider was shifted to the hospital where he stayed for one week but he was unable to recover from the damage caused by the coronavirus. Dr Haider’s son, Dr Kumail spoke to Geo and The News and confirmed the pas...