JK News Today
Srinagar, Feb 06: Former Director, Doordarshan and AIR Srinagar, and Sahitya academy award winning poet Farooq Nazki is no more.
A renowned poet, broadcaster and media personality from Jammu and Kashmir, Nazki breathed his last at Narayana Hospital in Katra.
He served as Director Doordarshan & AIR Srinagar from 1986 to 1997. Besides media head and writing career, Nazki has also served as Editor “Daily Mazdoor” from 1960 a newspaper highlighting the problems labours class, as per his bio on Wikipedia
In 2000, he retired as its Deputy Director General. He was media advisor to two Chief Ministers: Farooq Abdullah (in 1983 and 1990–2002) and Omar Abdullah (2010).
In 1995 he won the Sahitya Academy award in Kashmiri language literature for his book of poetry, Naar Hyutun Kanzal Wanas (Fire in the eyelashes).
PDP leader Naeem Akhtar, who is a nephew of the deceased, told Greater Kashmir that the body of Farooq Nazki is being transported to Srinagar from Jammu through the National Highway and will be laid to rest in the family graveyard at Malkha Kathi Darwaza Srinagar.
“The time for nimaz e Jinazah will be decided after the body reaches home,” he said.
