Editor GK, Fayaz Kaloo Bereaved

SRINAGAR: Naseema Akhter, wife of Mir Ghulam Qadir and a close family member of several prominent journalists in Kashmir, passed away at SKIMS Soura on Friday evening after a prolonged illness. She was 69.

Akhter was the sister of Ghulam Hassan Kaloo, Editor of The Mirror of Kashmir, Dr Farooq Ahmad Kaloo, and Fayaz Ahmad Kaloo, Editor of Greater Kashmir. She was also the mother of Mir Aijaz Ahmad, Editor of Kashmir Canvas.

She breathed her last at 7:45 p.m. and her funeral prayers (Nimaz-e-Jinaza) will be offered on Saturday, August 9, at 11:00 a.m. at Jamia Masjid Hyderpora.

Kashmir Life expresses its heartfelt condolences on the demise and stands in solidarity with the bereaved family in their hour of grief.