Malik Riaz announces to bear medical losses of bum ‘Fifty Fifty’ comedian
KARACHI: Bahria Town Chairman Malik Riaz Hussain has announced to bear medical losses of bum actor Majid Jahangir of Fifty Fifty fame.
Early Thursday morning, Junaid Akram, a stand-up comedian who looks adult to Jahangir, urged his friends and supporters on amicable media to come brazen and support a maestro actor in whatever approach possible.
The comedian’s supports have run dry, carrying been spent on medical bills, after he mislaid prejudiced duty of his physique to stoppage roughly 3 years ago. Some state officials had afterwards stepped adult to assistance him in his treatment.
“I had been acid for Majid Jehangir for so enlarged and this is how I’ve found him. He’s been my biggest impulse in comedy. Seeing my favourite in this state creates me feel unequivocally sad,” Akram wrote.
An concomitant design of a actor, now in his 60s, showed him station opposite a automobile featuring a ensign that read:
“لوگوں کو ھنسانے والے ففٹی ففٹی کے مشہور مزاحیہ فنکار ماجد جہانگیر کے فالج کے علاج کے لئیے پرستاروں سے مدد کی اپیل ہے”
Loosely translated, it reads: “This is an interest to a fans of Majid Jahangir, a famous comedy artist from Fifty Fifty who used to make people laugh, to assistance him in the expenses related to a diagnosis of his paralysis.”
Other fans and admirers also took to amicable media, observant a aged comedian does not have adequate supports to bear medical losses by himself.
A array was also supposing in this courtesy — (92) 302-2407374 — if someone wished to be of assistance to Jahangir.
Speaking to Geo.tv over phone, Jahangir explained that a hurdles in his life have kept pier adult and that, due to his sickness, he is incompetent to get any kind of employment.
Owing to problems in his speech, a actor had his wife, Saba Majid, speak to Geo.tv, observant ever given a actor’s stoppage 3 years ago, a integrate has been asked to make weekly visits to a doctor.
This, therefore, means that detached from his medical expenses, he also has to bear unchanging invert costs and with no permanent income, it is unequivocally tough to live a day-to-day life.
They have changed to Lahore after losing hopes of removing any assistance from a supervision of Sindh, a comedian’s mother says.
“With a diagnosis that could presumably final a lifetime, we could unequivocally do with some financial assistance,” pronounced Saba, who, herself, is a heart patient.
He can walk, she says, though “with someone’s assistance”.
Just before unresolved up, a actor explains that notwithstanding essay to a administrator and a arch minister, he has had no assistance after mid-2016, when Sharmila Farooqui of Pakistan Peoples Party and President Mamnoon Hussain had offering financial assistance.
Sharmila Farooqi donates coupon of Rs 4 lac to Pakistani comedian Majid Jahangir
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) personality Sharmila Farooqi on Tuesday privately donated a coupon amounting to Rs400,000 to a mythological comedian Majid Jahangir on interest of a Sindh Culture…
Back in Oct 2016, Geo.tv reported that Farooqi privately donated a coupon value Rs400,000 to a mythological comedian on interest of a Sindh government’s Culture, Tourism Antiquities Department.
Other internal media outlets reported in 2016 that a boss had also authorized supports value Rs 300,000 in Jahangir’s name.
Jahangir was celebrated with a Pride of Performance Award, a top fame in Pakistan, for his noted opening in Fifty Fifty. He worked for a Pakistan Television Network (PTV) for 22 years and has, to date, starred in 4 films.
Pakistani actors and actresses have time and again been abandoned by a supervision notwithstanding providing decades-long entertainment.
Back in Feb this year, dear actor Matloob-ur-Rehman, famous for personification a purpose of Zakoota Jin in TV array Ainak Wala Jin, died in Lahore after pang from prejudiced paralysis, as good as, according to some reports, diabetes. Days before his death, he had lamented how it was “a tragedy that artists in a nation are not given due respect”.
Prior to that, in Oct 2017, Nusrat Ara Begum — famous for her description of Bil Batori in a same drama, Ainak Wala Jinn — passed away after a enlarged ailment. The final few years of her life were spent in misery and struggle, as she tried, in vain, to find practice and a stoppage conflict marred one of her legs.