On February 25, Fazal Shaikh’s paternal aunts, who were his custodians, allegedly left him outside his other aunt Suraiya Shaikh’s home at Phule Nagar when she was not at home. When Suriaya ...

Born in Lahore in June 1929, Suraiya Jamal Sheikh was just six when she began singing for AIR in Bombay, where her parents had moved in 1930. Aged just seven, she acted in her first film ...

Born in Lahore in 1929, as Suraiya Jamal Shaikh, she made her debut as a child star with Taj Mahal (1941). She did playback as a year-old in Sharda (1942) under the direction of the legendary Naushad.