KARACHI – Burhanuddin Hassan, a well-known broadcast journalist who passed away recently, was remembered at a ceremony at the Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ), IBA, on Saturday. Family and friends paid rich tributes to the doyen and highlighted multiple aspects of his personal and professional life. They shared sweet memories of a man who […]
KARACHI: The memorial reference organised to celebrate the life and work of Burhanuddin Hassan, one of the stalwarts of broadcast journalism in Pakistan, took the audience back to a time of military coups and curfews, when martial law was the norm, and the media had to work within a restricted canvas unlike the present day. […]
LAHORE: Senior journalist of daily Jang Syed Muhammad Anwar Qadwai died of heart attack on Friday. He was 72. His Namaz-i-Janaza will be offered on Saturday (today) after Zohar prayer at his residence 389-Jehanzeb Block, Allama Iqbal Town, Lahore. Qadwai suffered heart attack after he reached back to home from his duty. He was taken […]
HYDERABAD: Speaking at a condolence reference held at the Sindhi Language Authority (SLA) here on Tuesday evening, writers and intellectuals paid homage to poet and journalist Parwano Bhatti, who died on Thursday. In his presidential speech, noted writer Qazi Khadim said that poets like Parwano Bhatti were rarely born. “He is a big name in […]
LAHORE – Mr Mazhar Qayyum Khan, a diplomat-turned-journalist who retired as deputy editor of The Nation about three years ago, died of multiple diseases at a local hospital yesterday. He was 82. His funeral prayer was held at Masjid Ux-i-Jameel, Samanabad, after which he was laid to eternal rest at Miani Sahib graveyard. A large […]
KARACHI: Former general manager of PTV Karachi centre and author Burhanuddin Hasan passed away here on Sunday. He was 86. He leaves behind his wife, a son and two daughters. Mr Hasan was born in 1930 in the princely state of Rampur, India. After partition, his family shifted to Lahore. He did his graduation from […]
LAHORE: Award winning photojournalist Azhar Hussain Jafri passed away here on Thursday due to a cardiac arrest. He was 63. He had been hospitalised for over two months because of the complications he developed as a result of his open-heart surgery. On Thursday his condition deteriorated at home and he breathed his last on way […]
LAHORE: Yawar Hayat Khan was the “last tower of the creative era of production”, says playwright Mustansar Hussain Tarar. “With the departure of Yawar Hayat a creative era of production and direction has come to an end,” Tarar said while talking to Dawn. Hayat died on Thursday at the CMH, where he was under treatment […]
KARACHI: People come and go but there are very few whose memory never fades was a general perception of speakers and participants at the condolence reference held for Zaheer Ahmed Khan in Dawn’s Newsroom on Friday. Nizamuddin Siddiqui describing the sweetness and compassion of the deceased recited a few couplets of Ghalib expressing the short […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists in newsrooms across the country mourned the passing away of two colleagues, who were killed in the line of duty while reporting from Quetta’s Civil Hospital on Monday. Shahzad Khan of Aaj TV and Mehmood Khan of DawnNews were on hand when Bilal Anwer Kasi’s body was brought to the hospital morgue. Upon […]
LAHORE – Hundreds of office-bearers and workers of Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust and the Pakistan Movement Workers Trust laid floral wreaths and offered fateha on the grave of former Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust chairman late Dr Majid Nizami on his second death anniversary. NPT Vice Chairman Dr Rafique Ahmad, Nawa-i-Waqt Editor Saeed Aasi, JUP leaders – Pir Ejaz Hashmi, […]
Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that Majid Nizami was a patriotic Pakistani and custodian of ideological basis of the country. Services of Majid Nizami for promotion of Pakistan ideology will always be remembered. Majid Nizami rendered invaluable services for journalism, protection of Pakistan ideology, welfare of workers of Pakistan Movement and supremacy […]
MARDAN: Senior journalist and former president of Katlang Press Club, Mohammad Gul Bangash who died on Thursday night was laid to rest in his village Ghundo Shamozai in Katlang tehsil on Friday. He breathed his last at the Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, after a protracted illness. His funeral prayer was largely attended by notables of […]
ISLAMABAD: Broadcaster, producer, playwright and writer Agha Nasir, who was a living encyclopedia of the broadcasting history of this country, passed away on Tuesday morning at the age of 79. “He was unwell mainly because of old age and weakness. His condition deteriorated at midnight and he left us for his eternal abode at around […]
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