Renowned singer Rubina Qureshi passes away in Karachi

Renowned singer Rubina Qureshi passes away in Karachi

Karachi (Web Desk): Renowned actor Mustafa Qureshi's wife and well-known singer Rubina Qureshi passed away after protracted illness in Karachi on Wednesday. She was 81.

The singer, popularly known as "Nightingale of Sindh", has been suffering from cancer for the last two years.

Rubina Qureshi, who rose to prominence in Sindhi music from Radio Pakistan in the 1960s, had remained under treatment in Agha Khan Hospital since last two years, but could not survived.

She breathed her last at her residence in Karachi, where she had been in a coma for the last two months, family sources confirmed.

Rubina Qureshi has survived her husband film star Mustafa Qureshi, a son, film actor Aamir Qureshi and daughter to mourn her death.

She will be laid to rest in the compound of Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s tomb after “Asr prayer” on Wednesday.