Death anniversary of Ahmed Rushdi observed

The 42nd death anniversary of famous playback singer Ahmed Rushdi was observed on Friday.

He was born on 24th April 1934 in Hyderabad Deccan and migrated to Pakistan after independence.

Ahmed Rushdi recorded around 5000 songs for 583 films in Urdu, English, Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi and Gujarati, which are the highest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema.

He was decorated with Sitara-e-Imtiaz posthumously for his contributions to the field of music in 2003.

Ahmed Rushdi died on this day in 1983 in Karachi.