Naheed Nusrat, wife of internationally acclaimed
music legend Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, succumbed to illness on 13th
September 2013 at the Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario. The wife
of the late musical maestro had moved to Canada after the demise of her husband
and had taken ill since the past one month. She is survived by a daughter. Born in Faisalabad, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was an internationally
acclaimed Pakistani Qawwali singer who possessed an extraordinary range of
vocal abilities. He contributed to and performed in several Pakistani films and
later did playback singing for Bollywood. He fell ill in 1997 and passed away
in London, England.
