Homage paid to Late Murad Shinwari

Ashrafuddin Pirzada

LANDIKOTAL: A large number of people including literary personalities paid visit to the grave of the late Murad Shinwari and offered Fatiha Khwani in Ashrafkhel village in Landikotal.

Khyber Adabi Jirga press secretary, Nadir Shah Nadir told The News that hundreds from Khyber agency and Peshawar visited the grave of Murad Shinwari and offered special offered for his departed. The visitors paid homage to the late Murad Shinwari.  He said Pashtu academy teachers, Professor Yar Muhammad Maghmoon, prof Raj Wali Shah Khattak and Haroon Shinwari, Hamza Baba Adabi Jirga president came to Murad shinwari hujra( male guests house) in Ashrafkhel Landikotal where they offered FatihaKhani. In their special messages, Nadir Shah said, the professors and Haroon Shinwari termed death of Murad Shinwari as a great lose not only for his family but also for all Pashtuns. They also demanded of the government to grant a handsome amount for the aggrieved family and construct a tomb on Murad grave.  Jawad Shinwari, the second son of Murad Shinwari told this scribe that his father was too humble to his family. He said that his father was another great lose for his family after his grandfather Amir Hamza Baba.

  Murad Shinwari died on February 18-02-2012 while his father, Hamza Baba Shinwari, had passed away on the same day and month on February 18-02 -1994 exactly after 18 years.