By: Aftab Mangi KARACHI: After graduating from Sindh University with a BA in political science, Aftab Mangi arrived at a fork in the road and decided to take the one less travelled. For the landscape of Pakistani cinema, that indeed made all the difference. The prominent Sindhi film producer and distributer of foreign movies passed […]
KARACHI: Senior sports journalist and Olympic hockey umpire Shams-uz-Zaman passed away on Sunday at the age of 76 in Karachi after suffering a heart attack, announced Sports Journalists Association of Sindh (SJAS). The SJAS expressed deep sorrow and grief over the loss of the senior sports journalist and great hockey lover. Shams-uz-Zaman was associated with […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Renowned singer Mehnaz Begum passed away on Saturday. She was 55. Mehnaz was on a plane, going to the United States for treatment of a respiratory ailment when her condition worsened. During a stopover in Bahrain, she was taken to a hospital where she died. The singer had been visiting the […]
Karachi: “Sarmad Ali, President, Masood Hamid, Secretary General, APNS and Mumtaz A. Tahir, Chairman, Regional Press Committee have expressed profound grief over the sad demise of M. R. Roohani, Chief Editor, Daily Sang-e-Meel, Multan who was sadly expired on January 08, 2013. The APNS Office Bearers expressed their condolence and prayed that Almighty Allah may […]
KARACHI: Scholar, critic and columnist Dr Muhammad Ali Siddiqui passed away here on Wednesday, family members said. He was 75. He remained admitted at a local hospital for the last two weeks. Late Dr Siddiqui was contributing columns with Daily Dawn since 60s and had remained the Director of the Quaid-i-Azam Academy. Currently, he was […]
By: Razzak Abro KARACHI: Speakers at a book launching ceremony held on Saturday evening opined that senior journalist, poet and anthropologist, Anwar Pirzado, remained a source of inspiration for youth in his life, and his work had continued the job even after his death. People from intelligentsia, journalism and civil society gathered at Arts Council […]
MARDAN: Famous Pashto poet Pir Gohar died of cardiac arrest here on Friday. He was 81. A large number of people, including those from literary, civil society and political circles, attended his funeral prayers held at Pirano Park in Piranudaga area here. Popularly known as Shaer-i-Aman, Mr Gohar had started his literary career after completing […]
By: Muhammad Ali Siddiqi IF Dawn truly had an unknown soldier, it was M.A. Majid, who died in Karachi on Thursday after a prolonged illness. Very few people knew him outside the profession because self-projection was never his forte. Yet it was Majid who groomed writers, some of them mediocre, into becoming renowned columnists. What […]
LAHORE: Noted scholar, expert on Iqbal, columnist, former director research Nazaria-i-Pakistan Foundation Prof Muzaffar Mirza died, aged, 73 on Saturday. His funeral prayer will be held at Maadr-e-Millat Park adjacent to Aiwan-i-Karkunan-i-Tehrik-i-Pakistan, 100-Shahrah-e-Quaid-i-Azam at 11 am on Sunday (today). TheNation Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria-i-Pakistari Trust (NPT) Chairman Majid Nizami, Pakistan Movement Workers Trust Chairman Colonel (r) […]
KARACHI: Actor and dramatist, Rasheed Sabir, passed away on Friday evening in a private hospital after a prolonged illness. He was 70 and left behind three sons and five daughters. Sabir was laid to rest at Moriro Mirbaher graveyard. Sabir wrote dramas for PTV, Radio Pakistan and Sindhi TV channels. He himself performed as an […]
By: Iqbal Khwaja THATTA: Zeenat Shaikh, a popular folk singer and drama artist, died after a long illness on Tuesday morning at the age of 73 in the house of her adopted daughter in Tando Mohammad Khan. Her body will be brought to her thatched hut in Thatta’s Mangarhar Mohalla and will be buried in […]
By: Shazia Hasan KARACHI: Ardeshir Cowasjee, a Dawn columnist, philanthropist and shipping tycoon, died at a hospital here on Saturday afternoon. He was 86. Mr Cowasjee, who was in frail health after suffering a femur fracture in August, was admitted to the National Medical Centre due to pneumonia some 10 days ago. He was in […]
LAHORE: Writer and journalist Shafqat Tanveer Mirza (STM) passed away following a protracted illness here on Tuesday. He was 80. He had been suffering from cancer. Mirza was born on February 6, 1932, in Domeli area of district Jehlum. He studied at schools in Chakwal, Khushab, Wazirabad, Attock, Bahawalnagar and at Gordon College Rawalpindi. Mirza […]
HYDERABAD: Khalish Muzaffar, a well-known literary figure, died on Saturday at his home in Pucca Qila on Saturday. He was 76. He left behind a wife, three sons and three daughters. Besides a large number of relatives and friends, MPA Syed Waseem Hussain and many political activists and professional fellows attended his funeral. His son, […]
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