{"id":4964,"date":"2019-09-24T13:13:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T08:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umang.pk\/2019\/09\/niloufer-cyrus-patel-passes-away-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2019-09-24T13:13:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T08:13:05","slug":"niloufer-cyrus-patel-passes-away-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/2019\/09\/24\/niloufer-cyrus-patel-passes-away-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Niloufer Cyrus Patel passes away &#8211; Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Niloufer Cyrus Patel, wife of Cyrus Minocher Patel, died Tuesday. She served as Director of Circulation in <em>Dawn<\/em>, and among his many achievements, he was the main person who led the success of Dawn Spelling Bee for more than a decade. <\/p>\n<p>She was the mother of Zeryus Cyrus Patel, sister of Rukhsana Sohrab Lawyer, daughter-in-law of Mani Minocher Patel, daughter of (late) Freny and (late) Sohrab Lawyer. <\/p>\n<p>His funeral was held at 11 in the morning at his residence.  <\/p>\n<p>&quot;<em>Dawn<\/em> He has lost one of his best. It was not just the director of circulation, it was a crusade for the free press, &quot;he wrote <em>Dawn<\/em> The editor Zaffar Abbas on the disappearance of Niloufer. &quot;When <em>Dawn<\/em> I was under severe attack and its distribution was interrupted, she worked tirelessly to make sure the newspaper reaches most of her readers. D.E.P&quot;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  one-whole  palm--one-whole  media--stretch  media--uneven media--embed\">\n<\/figure>\n<p>Condolences from colleagues and members of the fraternity of journalists came after the news of Niloufer&#39;s disappearance. <\/p>\n<p>The senator and former colleague of the PPP, Sherry Rehman, wrote a farewell message to Niloufer on Twitter: &quot;Goodbye Niloufer Patel. He was the friendliest person I&#39;ve ever met. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It helped me install my desk in the <em>Dawn<\/em> When I returned from college, I lost the first day of work. She was always there. Gone in 25 days to a galloping cancer. May he rest in peace, in a better place. &quot;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  one-whole  palm--one-whole  media--stretch  media--uneven media--embed\">\n<\/figure>\n<p>&quot;What a terrible, terrible news. There was never a kinder soul and a friend and more loyal colleague,&quot; said the former <em>Dawn<\/em> Abbas Nasir editor on Twitter. &quot;Thoughts and prayers with your family. Condolences to the <em>Dawn<\/em> team. She will miss. RIP Niloufer. &quot;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  one-whole  palm--one-whole  media--stretch  media--uneven media--embed\">\n<\/figure>\n<p>&quot;A kind and gentle soul has been taken from us. Very sad day,&quot; he wrote <em>Dawn.com<\/em> Jahanzaib Haque editor. <\/p>\n<p><em>Dawn<\/em> The magazine editor Hasan Zaidi, in his message, said: &quot;She was always there, always willing to help, always the smiling face working behind the scenes to make things happen.&quot; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  one-whole  palm--one-whole  media--stretch  media--uneven media--embed\">\n<\/figure>\n<p>The leading journalist Muhammad Ziauddin called his death &quot;a great loss for the printing industry in general, for <em>Dawn<\/em> particularly&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Niloufer Patel was an amazing person and a pleasure to work with. We will miss her very much,&quot; journalist Zarrar Khuhro said in a tweet. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  one-whole  palm--one-whole  media--stretch  media--uneven media--embed\">\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1507075\/niloufer-cyrus-patel-passes-away<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niloufer Cyrus Patel, wife of Cyrus Minocher Patel, died Tuesday. She served as Director of Circulation in Dawn, and among his many achievements, he was the main person who led the success of Dawn Spelling Bee for more than a decade. She was the mother of Zeryus Cyrus Patel, sister of Rukhsana Sohrab Lawyer, daughter-in-law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11828],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}