Dawn correspondent grieved

The Newspaper's Staff Correspondent Published December 23, 2023

QUETTA: The father of Abdul Wahid Shahwani, Dawn’s correspondent in Khuzdar, passed away on Friday.

The family said that Haji Elahi Bakhsh Shahwani suffered a heart attack the same evening, which led to his demise. He was laid to rest in the police lines graveyard later in the evening.

Published in Dawn, December 23rd, 2023

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