Singer Gulrez Tabassum dies at 77, remembered for tappay

The Pashto folk artist, born in Mardan in 1950, died in a Peshawar hospital after years of poor health and more than a decade away from the stage.

Pashto folk singer Gulrez Tabassum died at 77 in a Peshawar hospital on Wednesday.

He was born in Mardan in 1950 and began on Radio Pakistan Peshawar.

His work spanned PTV Peshawar, stage shows, cinema, and folk forms such as tappay.

Family sources said he died in hospital after years of worsening illness; he had quit singing more than a decade earlier.

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