
Tarek Fatah, Canada-based columnist, writer, and human rights defender passed away peacefully today in Toronto Canada.
According to family sources, he was ill for a long time and was hospitalized, he died today (24 April 2023) morning at St. Michael’s Hospital, Canada.
Fatah was born on 20 November 1949, in Karachi, Pakistan into a Punjabi Muslim family which had migrated from Bombay to Karachi following the Partition of India in 1947. Fatah graduated with a degree in biochemistry from the University of Karachi but entered into journalism as a reporter for the Karachi Sun in 1970, before becoming an investigative journalist for Pakistan Television. He was a leftist student leader in the 1960s and 1970s and was imprisoned twice by military regimes. In 1977, he was charged with sedition and barred from journalism by the Zia-ul-Haq regime.
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