KARACHI: Noted poet and a known name in Karachi’s literary circles Azm Bahzad passed away on Friday morning. He was 52. According to his close friends, he was suffering from ulcerous pain for quite some time which later became complicated and took his life. He is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. […]
ISLAMABAD: Safdar Ali Qureshi, former Director General of Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) and International Islamic News Agency died here on Thursday evening of cardiac arrest. He was 83. Safdar was also the former President of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) for two terms. He was the office-bearer of Afro-Asian Journalist Association, which was […]
KARACHI: Pakistan’s leading broadcaster and senior executive producer and one of the founding members of Geo TV, Syed Amir Imam, passed away on Wednesday evening at the age of 75. He, till the last breath, served major part of his life in the television industry. Syed Amir Imam was born in Lucknow in 1936 and, […]
HYDERABAD: Noted writer and broadcaster Murad Ali Mirza died at home in Tando Agha on Tuesday after a protracted illness. He was 81. He leaves behind a wife, a daughter and a son, Murad Ali Mirza started his career from Radio Pakistan`s Hyderabad station as producer and retired as programme manager. He also served as […]
KARACHI: Celebrated English poet and prolific journalist Kaleem Omar died on Thursday of heart failure at the age of 72. He had undergone a bypass last month. Omar was born in India in November 1937 to an affluent family that owned the vast construction firm, Omar Sons. He went to school in Nainital, India, and […]
JACOBABAD: Ghansham Das Dodeja alias Ghani, a correspondent for Dawn in Jacobabad, died of cardiac arrest here on Tuesday. He was 70. He leaves behind a widow, two daughters and a son. Dodeja joined journalism in 1958 after doing M.A. He worked as correspondent for a number of Sindhi, Urdu and English dailies. Ghansham Das […]
DADU – The 79th birth anniversary of renowned Sindhi poet, Ustad Bukhari, was celebrated at his residence in Gharibabad Mohalla here on Friday. Brother of Ustad Bukhari, Syed Au Shah and son Dr Altaf Bukhari inaugurated the program by cut-ting a cake. Apart from relatives, close friends and lovers of Ustad Bukhari also attended the […]
By Shahina Maqbool ISLAMABAD: Prominent journalist, former edition in charge of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad edition of The News, and a much-valued friend of the media community, Mohammad Najeeb, died of sudden cardiac arrest here on Thursday afternoon. Najeeb, 41, was rushed to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), where he allegedly expired for want of […]
KARACHI- Glowing tributes were paid to the late Prof. Dr.Miskeen Ali Hijazi at a condolence meeting at the Department of Mass Communication, University of Karachi, on Tuesday. Dr.Hijazi, a former chairman Department of Mass Communication, University of the Punjab, died in Karachi the other day, after protected illness. Prof. Zkariyya Sajid, a veteran teacher and […]
LAHORE: Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has expressed deep sorrow over the death of former chairman Journalist Department Punjab University and renowned educationalist, columnist, scholar and thinker Prof Dr. Miskeen Ali Hijazi. President CPNE Arif Nizami in his condolence message prayed to Almighty Allah to rest the departed soul in eternal peace and grant […]
MIRPURKHAS: Senior journalist and member All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) Dost Ali Bhatti died after protracted illness at Agha Khan Hospital, Karachi on late Monday night. According to reports, seniour journalist Dost Ali Bhatti, 65 was the district reporter of daily Sindhi Ibrat at Mirpurkhas and was the chief editor of weekly Paighame Sindh, Mirpurkhas. […]
KARACHI, June 5: Shujauddin, a Dawn staffer, passed away late on Thursday evening. He was 30. He became a journalist at a very young age while studying for a degree in Sociology and Education at Karachi University. He had 13 years of experience working in four English language newspapers. He joined this organisation a few […]
Sultana Begum, the mother of Dr Jabbar Khatak, Senior Vice President, Council of Newspaper Editors and Chief Editor Daily Awami Awaz, expired on Friday, May 30, 2008. Qur’aan Khwani for the departed soul was held here on Sunday. It was attended, among others, by leaders of All Pakistan Newspapers Society, the Council of Newspaper Editors, […]
KARACHI (May 25 2008): Amjad Aziz Bhatti, a senior member of Aaj TV reporting staff, passed away in a local hospital between Friday and Saturday night. Bhatti, still young at 29, was suffering from blood cancer according to his colleagues from Aaj TV. They said the late journalist, who had joined Aaj TV in 2004 […]
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