King Faisal International Prize awardee economist Dr Nejatullah Siddiqui passes away
New Delhi: Indian Economist Dr Mohammed Nejatullah Siddiqui, who won the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 1982, has passed away. He was 91.
Dr Siddiqui was born in India in 1931; he studied at the Aligarh Muslim University, and in Rampur and Azamgarh, reported The Hindustan Gazette.
A prominent Urdu and English writer, Dr Siddiqui had 63 works in 177 publications in 5 languages and 1,301 library holdings, as per the records of the WorldCat. His works have been translated into languages like Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai. Dr Siddiqui’s work, ‘Banking without Interest’, has been published in 27 editions in three languages between 1973 and 2000. It is held by 220 libraries in the world and is possibly the most widely read book by the writer.
The economist worked as associate professor of economics and an Islamic studies professor at the Aligarh Muslim University for a long time. He was also Emeritus Professor at the University. He was a professor of Economics at the King Abdul Aziz University of Jeddah, in the Center for Research in Islamic Economics. He was a Fellow at the Centre for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, and a visiting scholar at the Islamic Research and Training Institute of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah.
He was also a member of the Central Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.
The professor supervised several PhD theses at various universities of India, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. Dr Siddiqui also served as editor or advisor for academic journals.
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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.
