From Breakfast To Final Goodbye: A Teacher’s Sudden Passing Leaves Family Saddened
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Published September 21, 2026 | 12:10 PM
PESHAWAR, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Sep, 2026) It was a peaceful morning at the home of Shamim Bibi, a 55-year-old mother from Pabbi, Nowshera. As her family gathered for breakfast, tragedy struck when she suffered a fatal cardiac arrest, turning an ordinary morning into a heartbreaking goodbye.
After offering Fajr prayers on a relatively cool morning at her village near the bank of the River Kabul, Shamim prepared breakfast for her school-going children and sat down to eat with them, as she had done countless times before.
“My wife first prepared breakfast for her school-going children and later sat down to eat with them. Suddenly, she cried out in severe chest pain and became unconscious,” recalled her husband, Aurangzaib Khan, his voice breaking as he recounted the incident.
The family immediately called an ambulance and rushed her to the government hospital in Pabbi, but by the time she reached the facility, doctors declared her dead.
“She left all of us alone,” Aurangzaib said, tears rolling down his face.
For the family, however, Shamim’s death was more than the sudden loss of a mother and wife; it was the disappearance of a person who had devoted herself to her children’s future and nurtured hopes for their success.
“My wife wanted to see my children become doctors and engineers. She used to sit with them and help them with their studies until late at night,” he said. Determined to keep her dream alive, Aurangzaib has now hired a tutor for the children.
"I want to fulfill the dream she had for them," he said.
Shamim Bibi’s story reflects the frightening unpredictability of cardiovascular disease, which remains a major public health concern in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and around the world.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, accounting for an estimated 19.8 million deaths in 2022. Heart attacks and strokes were responsible for about 85 percent of these deaths.
The risk of heart attacks is not confined to old age. Cardiologists say younger people can also develop serious cardiovascular problems, with lifestyle-related risk factors increasingly becoming a concern.
Professor Dr Zahid Aslam, a senior cardiologist and former head of the Cardiology Ward at Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar, said cardiac problems were increasingly being observed among younger patients.
“Heart diseases are not merely a matter of growing age,” he said, noting that he had treated patients in their twenties and thirties who had suffered heart attacks. He said unhealthy eating habits, inadequate physical activity, poor sleep, and other lifestyle factors could contribute to cardiovascular risk.