Mangaluru: Hawwa Binthi Aboobakar passes away
Mangaluru, May 16: Hawwa Binthi Aboobakar , wife of Late K.A Muhammad Soofi Banakal passed away on Wednesday evening at her son's house in Kaikamba, Mangaluru. She was 77.
Born and brought up in Uppinangady of Dakshina Kannada District, Hawwa was the first Muslim girl to pursue high school education in her town at a time when Muslim girls were hardly getting formal education in Coastal Karnataka.
A voracious reader of Islamic literature in Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu languages, Hawwa learnt Quranic Arabic at an early age through self-study. In 2013, Mangaluru based publishing house Shanthi Prakashana had felicitated her as part of its silver jubilee celebration for her three decade long efforts towards promoting Islamic literature among Kannada readers.
She is survived by six sons and three daughters including NRI activist Iqbal Soofi and Writer Sharafuddin Soofi. Her funeral will be conducted on Thursday at Huda Masjid, Nekkilady, Uppinangady, said her family sources.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
