Date: Saturday 26th March 2016
Shah Nawaz was the Vice President of the Pakistani Centre for over 25 years and was a central figure in the Muslim community.
He sadly passed away on the 26th March 2016.
Shah Nawaz was born in the village of Paour Miana on 1 June 1929.
He came to Liverpool in August 1950 to marry Mir Alam’s daughter Joan.
He worked at a foundry in Bradford before getting married on 26 December 1951. The couple lived in Upper Stanhope Street. He was a welder by trade and worked as a shipbuilder at Camel Laird for 27 years. Joan worked as a packer at Crawford’s Biscuits.
In 1972 he bought a shop in Granby Street with his partner Mohammed Yousaf Choudhury. The Pakistan General Store supplied meat to ships that docked from South Asian countries.
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