KARACHI: Hameed Haroon, President of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society, and Secretary General Sarmad Ali have expressed profound grief over the death of ‘veteran colleague’ Ziauddin T. Kisat on Thursday after a protracted illness. They paid tribute to the services rendered by Mr Kisat and said he had served the newspaper industry for over 40 […]
LANDIKOTAL: President of the Darra Adamkhel-Kohat Press Club Sultan Habib has passed away. He had been infected with colon cancer five years ago and he sold all his valuables and property for his treatment. He died at the age of 49 at a hospital on Sunday. The funeral prayer would be offered at 8:30am (today) […]
WANA: A local journalist Roshan Mehsud died in Tank on Wednesday. He was 55. His funeral prayer was offered at the Spin Masjid in Tank which was attended by local journalists, government officials and notable of the area. The deceased was laid to rest at the Mehsud graveyard. He was brother of journalist Rauf Mehsud. […]
KARACHI: Wahid Bashir, a revered trade unionist and veteran journalist, famous for being a member of a group of a dozen students who were expelled from Karachi for spearheading the 1962 student movement, passed away on Sunday after protracted cardiac ailments. Born in Hyderabad, India, in 1928, Mr Bashir studied in a school there and […]
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a remembrance reference demanded that the government establish an academy which should be named after former group editor of Daily Express Syed Abbas Athar, commonly referred to as Shah ji. The reference, organised by National Press Club (NPC) on Friday brought together politicians and journalists together who insisted his columns held lessons […]
LAHORE: A working journalist remains alive through is work even after his death. Fellow journalists should commemorate their departed fellows to celebrate their achievements, said speakers at a condolence reference in memory of departed journalists at Government College University (GCU) on Tuesday. Education Reporters Association (ERA) organized the reference in collaboration with GCU to pay […]
KARACHI: Veteran journalist Sheikh Abdul Quddoos, an active member of Karachi Press Club and the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ), lost the battle to cancer this afternoon. Quddoos was a dedicated journalist whose career spanned several decades. He worked at many media institutions, including the Daily Amn and the Daily Jehan-i-Pakistan for many years, as […]
KARACHI: Mr Masood Hamid, Director Marketing, Pakistan Herald Publications Private Limited (PHPL), who was found shot dead on Friday night, will be laid to rest on Sunday, the Dawn Media Group said in a statement. His funeral prayers will be held after Zuhar at Bait-us-Salam Mosque in Phase IV, DHA. Mr Hamid received a single […]
KARACHI: Mr Masood Hamid, Director Marketing, Pakistan Herald Publications Private Limited (PHPL), was found murdered in his car in Defence Housing Authority’s phase-8 on Friday night, The Dawn Media Group said in a statement. Mr. Hamid was killed by a single shot, and apparently died on the spot. The unknown gunmen also left the weapon […]
LAHORE: Senior journalist Asad Sahi, 45, was laid to rest at his ancestral Mundrawala Town of Daska on Sunday. Sahi, the chief reporter of City 42, had died of a cardiac arrest in Lahore on Saturday night. A large number of journalists, friends, family members and police officers attended the funeral prayers of Sahi, who […]
Veteran journalist and Assistant Editor Reporting Business Recorder Iqbal Mirza passed away on Tues-day night after brief illness. He was 81. He was survived by a wife and four daughters. His funeral prayers will be held at Masjid-e-Arifeen near Sea Breeze Plaza on Shahrah-e-Faisal at 1:30 pm on Wednesday. He will be laid to rest […]
By: Shaikh Aziz and Sohail Sangi ON a humid morning in 1939, a 19-year-old boy travelled from Larkana to Shantiniketan College, Rabindranath Tagore’s school in West Bengal, desirous of learning music. He had asked the principal for admission, but without a test, and had received a positive telegram. Three years later, when he left, he […]
BAHAWALPUR: Senior journalist and Daily The Nation Correspondent in Bahawalpur, Muhammad Afzaal Hameed who passed away on Monday was laid to rest in his native graveyard Noor Shah Bukhari. The deceased was 74. Earlier, his funeral was offered which was attended by a large number of people from all walks of life including local leadership […]
LAHORE: Majid Nizami, a veteran journalist and editor-in-chief of the Nawai Waqt Group, died here at a hospital in the small hours of Saturday. He was 86. Majid Nizami was under treatment for severe chest infection for the past three weeks. He had earlier undergone three heart bypass surgeries. His daughter and managing editor of […]
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