KARACHI, Oct 2: Noted teacher Salma Haqqee, wife of Shanul Haq Haqqee, died on Wednesday in Mississuaga, Canada, following an accidental fracture of the hip-bone. She was 84.

Apart from her husband, five sons and a daughter, a large number of her students will mourn her death all over the world. Ms Haqqee taught Urdu first at Aligarh, where she had been educated, and then at Government Women’s College, Karachi, till her retirement in 1983.

She married her first cousin Shanul Haq Haqqee, noted scholar, translator and lexicographer, in 1944. Her father, Khan Bahadur Salamul Haq, was once postmaster general in the British government of India.

Soyem will be held in Karachi on Sunday after the Zuhar prayers at Palpa Club behind the Federation House, Kehkashan, Clifton.