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Pakistan guidebooks author dies at 83

GENEVA: Isobel Shaw, an Irish-born travel writer whose guidebooks introduced thousands of visitors to Pakistan, died on Wednesday (Nov 11) at her home in St-Cergue, Switzerland. She was 83. Ms Shaw first came to Pakistan in 1978, when her husband, Robert Shaw, was posted to Islamabad as the Ford Foundation’s representative. During her three years in Islamabad she learnt Urdu and, with Hilary…

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    GENEVA: Isobel Shaw, an Irish-born travel writer whose guidebooks introduced thousands of visitors to Pakistan, died on Wednesday (Nov 11) at her home in St-Cergue, Switzerland. She was 83. Ms Shaw first came to Pakistan in 1978, when her husband, Robert…

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