MIRPUR (AJK): Kashmir-born seasoned banker and retired senior officer of National Bank of Pakistan Waris Hamid Nizami, 71, died of cardiac arrest in a hospital in Lahore wee hours on Monday.
He was laid to rest in Lahore the same evening in presence of family members, friends and relatives.
Nizami, the son of late Kashmir freedom movement activist, writer, journalist, intellectual and founder of Sericulture Department in AJK Mr. Abdul Hamid Nizami and the brother of senior Kashmiri journalist Altaf Hamid Rao, late Engineer Rao Ejaz Ahmed Shad, late founder officer and retired Director News of PTV late Mumtaz Hamid Rao and late Dr. Salim Nizami, Retried Senior Officer of National Health Service (United Kingdom).
After doing his graduation in Commerce with Honors (B.Com. Hons) from Peshawar University in 1975 with distinction he joined National Bank of Pakistan as Officer in 1975 and served the bank for about three decades in Azad Jammu Kashmir besides in various parts of Punjab.
In acknowledgment of his outstanding performance in Foreign Exchange section, he was transferred and posted in UAE in 1982 where he served as Manager of the NBP’s controlled National Exchange Company for over 13 years in various positions as Manager and Sr. Manager at Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al-Ain. Earlier, he also served Accountant General (AG) Office of AJK government for quite some time soon after completion of his studies in Commerce from Peshawar University’s Quaid e Azam College of Commerce (Session 1971-74).
He left behind a widow, two sons – Rao Zeashan Nizami, a Commerce graduated from Punjab University and UAE-based Rao Moheimin Nizami.and two daughters in his survivors.