HARIPUR: Poet, teacher and former general secretary of Anjuman Taraqi Pasand Musanifeen, Haripur chapter, Asim Qazi died of cardiac arrest, his family and doctors said on Saturday. He was 48.

He left behind two daughters and a wife to mourn his death.

Family sources said that Asim Qazi suffered a heart attack on Friday evening and was removed to the trauma centre where the doctors pronounced him dead.

He was laid to rest in the graveyard of his native Kahal village. Poets, colleagues, political and social activists and his students attended his funeral prayers.

Asim Qazi held master’s in physics, English and Urdu, and was currently serving as subject specialist at Government Higher Secondary School for Boys, Kahal. He was son of late educationist and former principal Government Degree College for Boys, Sherwan Abbottabad, Prof Saeed Qazi.

Being a poet, he joined Anjuman Taraqi Pasand Musanifeen, Haripur chapter about two decades ago and served it as general secretary. He authored an Urdu poetry book that contained ghazals and nazims. The book was launched in 2016.

Asim Qazi’s two poetry books are under the process of compilation.

Published in Dawn, July 7th, 2024