Poet Kashmiri Lal Zakir passes away at 97
Poet and novelist Kashmiri Lal Zakir passed away on Wednesday at the age of 97. Condoling the death of Zakir, who was also the Chairman of the Haryana Urdu Academy, state Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said, "With the death…Urdu and Hindi literature have lost a doyen.” He had been conferred with the Fakhr-e-Haryana by the state government, Khattar added.