Researcher Imran Rashid dies

Peshawar—Imran Rashid Imran, writer, a committed researcher and historian on Peshawar glorious heritage, has breathed his last in the CCU ward of Hayatabad Medical Complex here on Tuesday at the young age of 42. For the last twenty days, he struggled between life and death in the cardiology and CCU wards as he suffered from cardiomegaly (enlarged heart) with ventricular failure, but finally succumbed to his illness, said a message received here.

A humble researcher, whose parents had emigrated from Punjab, Imran was a tireless and committed historian on Peshawar’s glorious heritage, having first compiled and published in 2002, an authentic account in Urdu called Peshawar sadder tarekh ke ainey main (Peshawar cantonment through ages) researching from numerous colonial military gazettes, archival matter and published accounts. A day before, he got admitted to the CCU ward, after a visit to Senator Haji Adeel for the proposed book launching of his third publication Peshawar Faseel e Shehr aur Darwaze (Heritage walls and gates of Peshawar (2012) he confided that it took him 10 long years to research for this particular book. This was Imran Rashid, who had also painstakingly compiled two other history books.