KARACHI, Feb 20: Senior journalist M.H. Riaz died in London last week. He was in his early 80s. He has left behind his wife, three daughters and a son. Mr Riaz, who hailed from Raipur, India, was married to a daughter of the owner of “The Lateefi Press” of Delhi from where the daily Dawn […]
KARACHI: Sarwar Naseem, an associate professor of the Mass Communications Department, University of Karachi (KU), and noted journalist, passed away late Thursday night at the university due to heart failure. Naseem was push-starting a car when he suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away. Naseem was also the general secretary of the Karachi University Teachers […]
KARACHI, Feb 15: Ahmed Pervez, brother-in-law of Tanvir Ahmed, assistant editor of Dawn, died on Thursday night. His funeral prayers will be offered at the Seaview (Clifton) mosque after Juma prayers. He will be buried in the Sakhi Hasan graveyard. Source: Dawn Date:2/16/2007
LAHORE – Editor The Post and elder son of Zia Shahid, the Chief Executive of Khabrain Group of Newspapers, Ednan Shahid passed away in London in the wee hours of Saturday after a heart attack. He was 37. His body is expected to be brought to Pakistan Tuesday (February 13). His funeral prayers will be […]
Karachi: The death of renowned journalist and media owner Kazi Saeed Akbar, who passed away on January 30 at the Aga Khan Hospital, has been widely condoled. He leaves behind two sons, one of whom succeeds him as editor in his English daily Regional Times, and one daughter. Saeed was born on August 22, 1939 […]
He was suffering from lung cancer for the last one-and-a-half years. He died peacefully in his sleep,” Akbar’s son Qazi Sajjad told Daily Times Wednesday. Akbar is said to have played a key role in the setting up of the All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) in the 1970s. Akbar was born in Hyderabad on August […]
Shaikh Fazal Ahmed was laid to rest in the Islamabad Graveyard. His Namaz-e-Janaza was held on Sunday night, which was attended by a large number of relatives, friends and senior military and civil officials. He left behind four sons Shakil Shaikh, Zubair Shaikh, Sarmad Shaikh and Sarfraz Shaikh.The Qul of Shaikh Fazal Ahmed would be […]
Ahmed Hussain’s funeral prayers were offered at Masjid-e-Muddasir, KDA Scheme No 1 near Karsaz, after Zuhr prayers. He was laid to rest at the PECHS graveyard. Source: The News Date:1/18/2007
LAHORE: Prof Mohammad Amin Malik, senior re-write sub-editor at The News, Lahore, died here on Friday evening minutes after he entered the Jang building reception. Prof Amin suffered a massive heart attack while he was waiting for the elevator to move up to the 4th floor, where The News offices are situated, and died before […]
KARACHI: Haroon Rasheed Bakhtair, father of senior journalist Idrees Bakhtair,Passed away on Wednesday. He was 85. His funeral prayers will be held today after Zohr prayers at Waseem Bagh Mosque in Gul-shan-e-Iqbal Block 13-D.The decased is survived by his widow, four sons and Two daughters. Ends Source: The News Date:11/30/2006
KARACHI: Veteran journalist and icon of economic journalism S.G.M. Budruddin died here on Thursday. He was 88.His funeral prayers will be offered after Friday prayers at Masjid-i-Shaheen, Khyaban-i-Rahat, adjacent to the Cantonment Board, Phase VI of the DHA. According to family members, Mr Budruddin passed away on his way to hospital. He had chest infection.Mr […]
KARACHI: Senior journalist Syed Wahab Ali Kazmi, Resident Editor of The Nation Karachi, passed away early Thursday morning because of post-heart surgery complications. He was laid to rest at a local graveyard in the afternoon. His friends, journalists, government functionaries and representatives of multinational companies attended Kazmi’s funeral prayers held at Masjid-e-Hira, Model Colony, Malir. […]
The owner of Nizami Press, editor of magazine “Zulqarnain” and senior journalist, Jamaluddine Mons Nizami Badayun passed away last night in India. He was 75. He is survived by two sons, two daughters and wife. His Soyem would be held on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 between the prayers of Zohar and Asr at 3F 5/17 […]
In the passing on Friday morning of Khaliq Ibrahim Khaliq, writer, poet, cormmitted progressive and renowned maker of documentaries, civil society that by the day gets poorer in its stock of cultured men as one by one they leave us, has suffered another impoverishment. Utterly himself with not the slightest affectation of manner, or cunning […]
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