Quratulain Balouch honours 'Wo Humsafar Tha' poet Naseer Turabi on account of his death

The poet, author and intellectual passed away on Sunday

Renowned poet, author and intellectual, Naseer Turabi, passed away in Karachi on Sunday after succumbing to ill health.

Turabi was 75-years-old and laid to rest at Wadi-a-Hussain graveyard on Monday after funeral prayers at Zuhr at Imambargah Shuhada-e-Karbala in Federal B Area Ancholi.

His popular ghazal, Wo Humsafar Tha, which he wrote after the split of East and West Pakistan in 1971, was later used as the soundtrack for Pakistani television serial, Humsafar. It was crooned by renowned singer Quratulain Balouch, popularly known as QB, for the same. Turabi considered the Dhaka Fall a great historic tragedy and that was expressed in this popular ghazal of his.

To honour his legacy on account of his demise, QB tweeted saying, “Naseer Turabi’s passing is a loss but he will live in our hearts forever.”

Naseer Turabi’s passing is a loss but he will live in our hearts forever.

— Quratulain Balouch (@Quratulainb) January 11, 2021

Born on June 15, 1945, in Hyderabad Deccan, pre-partition India, Turabi and his family migrated to Pakistan after independence. He started his journey as a poet in 1962 and did his Masters in Public Relations from the University of Karachi in 1968.

The late poet was the son of famed Urdu poet, linguist, lexicographer and famous religious speaker Allama Rashid Turabi.

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