KARACHI: Writer dies in accident

Published January 24, 2006

KARACHI, Jan 23: Prominent writer, intellectual and critic Prof Riaz Siddiqui, 62, died on Monday at the Jinnah Hospital, where he was shifted after being injured in a traffic accident on Sharea Faisal in the morning.

He has left the widow, a son and a daughter. He was buried in the Liaquatabad graveyard.

Soyem will be held after Zuhar prayer at Masjid-i-Yaqubia in Federal B Area on Wednesday.

Prof Siddiqui, who was Urdu teacher at the Government College, Stadium Road, had written more than six books on literature, and contributed scores of articles to magazines and newspapers.

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