{"id":942,"date":"2025-03-19T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/2025\/03\/19\/literary-scholar-ab-ashraf-laid-to-rest\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:04:11","slug":"literary-scholar-ab-ashraf-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Literary scholar AB Ashraf laid to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dr Ahmed Bakhtiar, popularly known as AB Ashraf, a former head of the Urdu Department at Bahauddin Zakariya University, who had died in Turkey four days ago after a brief illness, was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard on Tuesday. He was 90.<\/p>\n<p>His body arrived in Lahore from Ankara, from where it was shifted to Multan.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral prayers were offered at a park in Gulghast, which were led by Khalid Sohail and attended by a large number of people from different walks of life.<\/p>\n<p>Dr AB Ashraf, born on February 15, 1935, was a former Urdu Chair at Ankara University and author of dozens of books. A large number of his students are serving worldwide. When he went to Ankara University, he was offered a permanent position there due to his qualifications and services.<\/p>\n<p>He left three sons and four daughters. Professor Naeem Ashraf is his eldest son.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ahmed Bakhtiar, popularly known as AB Ashraf, a former head of the Urdu Department at Bahauddin Zakariya University, who had died in Turkey four days ago after a brief illness, was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard on Tuesday. He was 90. His body arrived in Lahore from Ankara, from where it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}