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Ahmad Faraz dies, poetry loses a voice
ISLAMABAD Renowned poet Ahmad Faraz passed away in Islamabad on Monday night at the age of 78.
His funeral prayers will be offered at the Islamabad Graveyard at 6pm on Tuesday, his son Shibli Faraz told a private TV channel. He leaves behind a widow and three sons.
He had been in a critical condition in the ICU at Shifa International hospital, Islamabad, since his return from the United States last month where he had suffered kidney failure and had been put on dialysis in a Chicago Hospital.
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