GENEVA (The Thursday Times) — Irish nazhad safarnama nigaar Isobel Shaw, jin ki guidebooks ne hazaron sayyahon ko Pakistan se mutaarif karaya, Switzerland ke qasbe St-Cergue mein apne ghar par inteqal kar gaeen. Un ki umr 83 baras thi.
Shaw ka inteqal Budh, 11 November ko hua aur un ki aakhri rasoomat Haftay ko Switzerland mein ada ki gaeen. Pasmandgan mein teen bachay, nau pote nawase, aur aik parpoti shamil hain.
Islamabad se Karakoram tak
Woh pehli baar 1978 mein Pakistan aaeen, jab un ke shohar Robert Shaw Ford Foundation ke numainday ke taur par Islamabad taeenaat hue. Darul hukumat mein teen baras ke qiyam ke dauran unhon ne Urdu seekhi aur Hilary Adamson ke saath mil kar A Traveller’s Guide to Pakistan likhi, jo 1981 mein Islamabad se shaya hui aur mulk ki awwaleen jadeed guidebooks mein se aik thi.
Un ki Pakistan Handbook, jo 1989 mein London aur Hong Kong se shaya hui, Thomas Cook Travel and Guide Book Awards ke liye shortlist hui. Pakistan par un ki musawwar guide ke 1988 se 2003 ke darmiyan paanch edition shaya hue, aur musannif Sir Fitzroy Maclean ne kaha ke is kitab ne “mulk aur us ke logon, dono ko zinda kar diya”.
1987 se unhon ne apne betay Ben Shaw ke saath Karakoram aur Hindu Kush ki wadiyon mein paidal safar kiya. Dono ne mil kar Pakistan Trekking Guide (1993) likhi, jis mein Chitral, Gilgit, aur Skardu se shuru hone wale taqreeban aik sau treks ka ahwaal tha, aur aik Americi koh paimai jareeday ne isay safar ka irada rakhne walon ke liye “lazmi mutalea” qarar diya.
1990 mein woh Swiss koh paima André Roch ko, jin ki umr us waqt 84 baras thi, Baltoro glacier ke raaste Concordia le gaeen, yaani wahan un ki pehli muhim ke 56 baras baad.
‘Hairat angez had tak mehman nawaz’
1990 ki dahai mein unhon ne Hukumat-e-Pakistan ke liye siyahat ki mushir ke taur par kaam kiya aur 1993 mein Karachi mein Pakistan Tourism Convention se kaleedi khitab kiya. 2005 ke zalzale ke baad unhon ne mutasireen ki orthopaedic nigehdasht ke liye funds jama karne ki khatir lectures diye. Usi saal London ki Pakistan Society ne unhein “Bartania mein Pakistan ke baare mein awami maloomat aur tafheem ke farogh” par apna award diya.
Un ki aakhri kitab, shumali Pakistan ke Karakoram aur Hindu Kush ke liye aik trekking guide, 2013 mein Lahore se shaya hui, usi saal woh 70 baras ki umr mein dobara Chitral gaeen. Is kitab mein unhon ne Pakistaniyon ko sayyahon ke liye hairat angez had tak khush aamdeed kehne wale, mehman nawaz, dostana, aur madadgar qarar diya.
1943 mein Ireland ki County Meath mein Isobel O’Beirne ke naam se paida hone wali Shaw ne Cambridge ke Newnham College mein taleem hasil ki aur 1981 se Geneva ke qareeb muqeem thi.
