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LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), May 6: A noted musician and Pashto poet Sana Gul Joshi died of bullet wounds in a Peshawar hospital on Saturday. He was 75.
Mr Joshi was fatally injured on April 21 when he was attacked by gunmen in the Bara area. Since then he was under treatment in Peshawar.
Mr Joshi, who was a resident of Tirah, joined Radio Pakistan’s Peshawar Centre in 1958. In 1965 he went to Afghanistan on the invitation of King Zahir Shah and was employed at Radio Kabul.
Mr Joshi returned in 1979 and settled down in Bara. He also authored three unpublished Pashto poetry books.
