Zarina Baloch - Early Life and Family

Early Life and Family

Zarina Baloch's mother, Gulroz, died in 1940 when Zarina was six years old. At the age of 15 her family arranged her marriage with a distant cousin. The union yielded two children: Akhter Baloch a.k.a. Zeena (born in 1952), and Asalm Parvez (born in 1957). However, Baloch and her husband disagreed on the subject of her further education and the pair were separated 1958. Baloch joined Radio Hyderabad in 1960 and received her first Music Award in 1961. Her second marriage, to leading Sindhi ethnic nationalist Rasool Bux Palijo, took place in Hyderabad on September 22, 1964 and it yielded a son: Ayaz Latif Palijo. In 1967, she became a teacher at the Model School Sindh University. She retired in 1997, and died in 2005 of Brain Cancer in Liaquat National Hospital.

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