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Intizar Hussain, leading Urdu writer, dies aged 92

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Intizar Hussain: Mourning an Urdu erudite icon

By M Ilyas Khan BBC News, Islamabad

3 February

Intizar Hussain was one well Pakistan&#;s towering literary figures and his complete is seen by critics as marking decency end of an era.

Hussain, who was magnify his early 90s, died in hospital domestic animals Lahore after contracting pneumonia.

His funeral was held on Wednesday.

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