In a heart-wrenching appearance on Zabardast With Wasi Shah, actor Mohsin Gillani was overcome with tears as he opened up about his grief over the death of his beloved daughter Fatima, who succumbed to post-labour complications in 2018 after the birth of her baby.

Recalling that he was shooting drama Ghughi at the time, Gillani said he had already pencilled in some time off from shooting so he could visit Fatima at what should have been a happy occasion for her delivery. However, shortly after Fatima gave birth to her baby daughter, the actor said her condition began to deteriorate.

"My daughter held my hand and said to me, 'I think I am dying.' How are you meant to react when your own daughter is saying these words to you?" he said. Lost in the harrowing memory, Gillani added that shortly after Fatima had been taken away on a stretcher, he was summoned to a doctor's office, where the news was broken to him that his daughter had passed away.

Recounting the traumatic 10-hour drive from Islamabad to Multan, with an ambulance travelling side by side carrying his daughter's body, Gillani said the impact of that day would never leave him or his wife and younger daughter. "To this day, I cannot bear the sound of an ambulance, and my wife and daughter cannot travel by motorway," he said. "How can you get past these things in life?"