Monitoring, Dec 31 (INP) – The year 2018 was a cocktail of great happy and sad moments with some loses and achievements as well. This year is nearing an end now and so here we are to pay tribute to all those notable personalities who are no longer with us. They will always be remembered by people around the world. Here is a roundup of all of these prestigious personalities.

4th Jan, 2018: Zubaida Tariq, also commonly known as Zubaida Aapa, was a chef and cooking expert from Pakistan. She was the first celebrity cook of Pakistan, appearing on a number of TV shows and she was specifically known for her worthy totkas. She was suffering from Parkinson s disease and passed away at the age of 72.

5th Jan, 2018: Mohammad Asghar Khan Afridi was a Pakistani politician, military officer, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force and an autobiographer, later a dissident serving for the cause of pacifism, peace, and the human rights. He died at the age of 96.5th Jan, 2018: Rasa Chughtai was a Pakistani poet in Urdu who was known for Zanjeer-e-Hamsaigi and Tere Aane Ka Intezaar Raha. He died at the age of 90 in Karachi.

19th Jan, 2018: Munnu Bhai was a newspaper journalist and columnist, poet and a writer of Pakistan. He was awarded the Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 2007 for his services to the nation. He died on 19 January 2018 in Lahore, aged 84.

1st Feb, 2018: Fariha Razzaq Haroon was a Pakistani politician and journalist who was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from 2002 to 2007. She was found dead in her home in Karachi along with her husband Hazar Khan Bijarani. Police said the death appeared to be a murder-suicide.

5th Feb, 2018: Siddiq Baloch was a Pakistani English-language journalist, and senior political economist. He was Editor-in-chief of the English daily Balochistan Express, The Guardian an Urdu daily Azadi, and the English Weekly Express. He died at the age of 77.

11th Feb, 2018: Asma Jahangir was a Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. She suffered a stroke leading to brain hemorrhage and passed away at the age of 66.

11th Feb, 2018: Qazi Wajid was one of the legendary actors of Pakistan. He passed away at the age of 87 subsequent to heart failure.

17th Feb, 2018: Famous stage and television actor Munna Lahori whose real name was Matloob-ur-Rehman, became popular for his character Zakoota Jin in children comedy drama Ainak Wala Jin, died in Lahore at the age of 68.

24th Feb, 2018: The legendary gorgeous Bollywood star Sridevi Kapoor drowned in a hotel bathtub and couldn’t survive. She was only 54 at the time of her death.

5th Mar, 2018: Jam Saqi was a left-wing politician from Sindh, Pakistan. He was previously the general secretary of the Communist Party of Pakistan. He died at the age of 73 following kidney failure.

11th Mar, 2018: Muhammad Ashiq was a Pakistani cyclist. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics. He started his career as a boxer. However after a fight, where he received many injuries, he switched his career to cycling. He worked as a rickshaw driver in Pakistan as well. Ashiq passed away at the age of 82.

20th Mar, 2018: Muhammad Ayaz Soomro was a Pakistani politician and lawyer, who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. Previously he had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as well. He passed away at the age of 59.

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