New Delhi, Jan 19: Noted Urdu writer and a senior member of Ghalib Institute, Hamida Sultan, passed away here this morning after protracted illness.

Hamida, a younger sister of former president Fakhruddin Ahmed, breathed her last at her Old Delhi residence, Ghalib Institute said in a statement. The octogenarian writer, a member of Anjuman-e-Taraqqui-e-Urdu, was related to Urdu poet and writer Ghalib.

Bureau Report