Early Life
Salmaan Taseer was of Kashmiri descent on his father's side.
He was born on 31 May 1944, in Simla, British India, of a family hailing from Amritsar. His grandfather was a peasant named Mian Atta ud Din. His father was Muhammad Din Taseer, popularly known as M.D. Taseer, who was born at Ajnala, Amritsar in 1902.
M.D. Taseer, a Professor at M.A.O. College, Amritsar, obtained his PhD in the United Kingdom. He was a close friend of Allama Iqbal, who officiated at the Nikah ceremony between him and his wife, Christobel George.
Salmaan Taseer's mother, Bilqis (Christobel) Taseer, an Englishwoman, was the sister of Alys Faiz, a writer and poet, who was herself the wife of renowned Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
M.D. Taseer died, aged 47 years, in 1950, when Salmaan Taseer was six years old, and Salmaan and his two sisters (one of whom was Salmaa Mahmud Taseer), were brought up by their mother, in relative poverty.
Read more about this topic: Salmaan Taseer
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or life:
“O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure;”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“The arbitrary division of one’s life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.”
—Alice Caldwell Rice (1870–1942)