Gulnar begum biography of barack
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The 1947 Partition Archive
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- Oral history with Taj Begum, 2017 February 6
- Author:
- Begum, Taj, 1937-, Hassan, Fakhra, and Sachdev, Mankanwal
- Author (no Collectors):
- Begum, Taj, 1937-, Hassan, Fakhra, and Sachdev, Mankanwal
- Collector:
- Begum, Taj, 1937-, Hassan, Fakhra, and Sachdev, Mankanwal
- Description:
- Taj Begum was born in 1937 in Delhi to an Urdu-speaking literary family. Her father, born and raised in Delhi, was a landlord and her mother was a homemaker. Sharing the story behind her name, Taj Begum says, “My father says on my birthday King George VI was crowned in England, and therefore he’d decided that my name would be Taj.” Her parents’ marriage was set by her paternal grandfather in Delhi, when her mother was four and a half years old, and her father was six years old. “Several years after her marriage, my mother obtained an English education from Queen Mary School, and could read the English newspaper, and
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PESHAWAR: The octogenarian Pashto folk singer, Hidayatullah, has been bedridden since long owing to multiple health complications, including memory loss, causing him to confine to loneliness as his fans had stopped visiting the popular artist of yore days.
Known as Mohammad Rafi of Pashto, Hidayatullah was born in 1940 at Dag Besood, Nowshera district. Later his family shifted to Peshawar where he passed matriculation examination from Edwardes High School there. Hidayatullah adopted employment in 1960 in the agriculture department and got retirement as senior clerk in year 2000.
Hidayatullah sang tracks for many hit Pashto flicks and limited his performance only to film, radio and TV.
He is the recipient of the President’s Award for Pride of Performance and numerous other awards from cultural organisations. The senior artist has been living in oblivion since 2004 owing to domestic issues followed by health problems and acute memory loss.
Wife says Hidayatullah’s popular son
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Pakistan's most populous city Karachi is a hub of modern technology, art, and a relatively liberal lifestyle. Some fyra million Pashtuns are estimated to live there. Most came from the northwest of the country, but even in this modern metropolis, Pashtun women face discrimination and a lack of opportunities.
On a typical narrow smutsig eller oordnad street in Karachi, not one woman can be seen in the windows of several old five or six story apartment buildings. Pashtun women rarely go outside. Inside the buildings, there are hundreds of poor Pashtun families, many of whom have lived there for decades.
On the fourth floor of one of the buildings, a ung girl, covering her face, opens the door. This two-room apartment is the home of 45-year-old Mumtaz Begum, a social worker who advocates Pashtun women's rights in Karachi. She invites Pashtun women to her apartment every day to discuss their problems.
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According to Begum, one of the most challeng