Pakistani-Canadian columnist Tarek Fatah passed away on April 24, 2023, after a prolonged battle with Cancer, his daughter Natasha Fatah, who herself is a journalist, shared the news.

• Born in Karachi, Pakistan before emigrating to Canada in 1987, Fatah was an award-winning reporter, columnist, and radio and television commentator, both in Canada and abroad.
• Fatah, who died at 73, was a political activist, a fierce defender of human rights and a staunch opponent of religious fanaticism in any form, nothing scared Tarek Fatah.