About Alys Faiz
Lived 1915 – 2003 (aged 87). Alys Faiz was a British, Pakistani and Indian journalist, social worker, human rights defender, poet and writer.
Alys Faiz (Urdu:; September 1915 Christobel married Dr. M. D. Taseer and joined him in India where he was the principal of a college. Alys traveled to India in 1938 to visit her sister, and, when World War II broke out, she decided to make the subcontinent her home.
Death
Alys Faiz died on 12 March 2003 in Lahore, Pakistan, at a hospital at the age of 87. She had been unwell for some time and was confined to her house after suffering a fracture of the hipbone in a fall. She was taken to the emergency department of a local hospital for treatment and did not survive. She was buried in the Model Town, Lahore, graveyard by the side of her husband Faiz Ahmad Faiz who had died earlier on 20 November 1984.
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Who was Alys Faiz?
Pakistani writer
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Alys Faiz was born on 22 September 1915 in London.
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Alys Faiz died on 12 March 2003.
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Alys Faiz was a journalist, social worker, human rights defender, poet and writer.
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Alys Faiz was British, Pakistani and Indian.
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