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Tarar,
Musharraf condole death [Source:
The News]
ISLAMABAD:
President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar on Saturday expressed
profound grief and sorrow over the demise of Melody
Queen Noor Jahan. In his condolence message to the
daughter of the deceased, the president said Noor
Jahan's death brings to end an era of singing. He
said her patriotic songs would long be remembered
by the countrymen. The Chief Executive General Pervaiz
Musharraf on Saturday expressed his heart-felt grief
over the demise of Melody Queen and a legendary
singer Madam Noor Jehan. In his message the chief
executive said the vacuum created by her death in
the field of music will never be filled. He said,
she rose to the dizzying heights of music and dominated
the stage for decades. She was a true Pakistani
and sang some memorable patriotic songs, which would
ever remain in the hearts of the people.
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Malika-e-Tarranum
Noor Jehan passes away [Source:
Dawn]
Pakistan's
renowned singer, Malika-e-Tarranum Noor Jehan passed
away here today, after a protracted illness. She
was 74. Noor Jehan started her career as an actress
and singer and played leading roles in a number
of famous films. She lit up cinema screens in her
youth and dominated the world of music with her
sweet voice for over half a century.
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Legendary
melody queen dies [Source:
The News]
KARACHI:
The Pakistanis, and surprisingly the Karachiites,
buried the legendary singing Queen, Madam Noor Jahan,
on Saturday night with tears in their eyes, her
sweet, life-warming melodies in their heart and
her smiling, sparkling face in their memory, after
she passed away earlier in the day following a cardiac
arrest in Karachi. [Read
the full article] |
We
grew with her notes in mind: Lata [Source:
The News]
LAHORE:
Singing legend Lata Mangeshkar has said Madam Noor
Jahan's death has created a vacuum in the music
of the Subcontinent [Read
the full article] |
Filmdom
grieved [Source: The News]
LAHORE:
Personalities such as Madam Noor Jahan are among
God's rarities, famous Ghazal singer Fareeda Khanam
said on Saturday.Tears flowing from her eyes, Fareeda
Khanam said: "God sends such people to us with special
love, which they spread in this sad world. [Read
the full article] |
Famed
Pakistani Singer Jehan Dies [Source:
APP]
Noor
Jehan, the Pakistani singer known as the ``Melody
Queen,'' died Saturday after a lengthy illness.
She was 74. Jehan, who in recent years had been
suffering from heart trouble, died in the southern
port city of Karachi, the state-run new agency Associated
Press of Pakistan reported. [Read
the full article] |
An
obituary [Source: The News]
By Adnan Sami Khan and Prof Abdul Khaliq Najmi
Mortality
is part of the package that brings us into this
world and all of us have to taste it sooner or later.
But there are some of us who make such distinguished
legacies of their lives and leave behind indelible
footprints that it becomes difficult to accept their
death. [Read
the full article] |
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