of the University's School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. Awards Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Medal of Excellence) by the President of Pakistan in 2006 Prime Minister's Literary Award by the Pakistan Academy of Letters in 1997 Death Farrukhi died suddenly from a cardiac arrest in Karachi on 1 June 2020. He had been a long-term diabetic. References Pakistani writers Pakistani scholars Harvard School of Public Health alumni Pakistani public health doctors Pakistani translators Dow Medical College alumni St. Patrick's High School, Karachi alumni Writers from Karachi Recipients of Tamgha-e-Imtiaz 1959 births 2020 deaths United Nations officials Academic staff of Aga Khan University