PAL condoles death of Nadeem Shafiq

Islamabad:Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) Chairman Dr. Yousuf Khushk on Monday expressed deep sorrow and grief over the demise of Dr. Nadeem Shafiq Malik, an educationist, writer, critic and researcher.

Chairman in his condolence message said that Dr. Nadeem Shafiq Malik was the competent Managing Director of Printing Corporation of Pakistan. He said that as the Federal Secretary National Heritage and Culture Division, Dr. Nadeem Shafiq Malik has run the PAL on the right lines and arranged many ceremonies in honor of founding father Quaid-e-Azam M. A. Jinnah and poet-philosopher Allama Iqbal especially on national days.

He said that Malik was very much impressed with the personalities of the late Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal adding that his research work on these two personalities was of utmost importance.

The library attributed to his mother, Safia Rafiq, was his personal library, with more than 100,000 books on various subjects. The chairman said that Dr. Nadeem Malik was a true patriot and his literary services would always be remembered.