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 […]
Staff Report KARACHI: Distinguished progressive writer Khalique Ibrahim Khalique expired at his home on Friday after a prolonged illness at the age of 80. Khalique was the writer and producer of the film ‘Ghalib’. He leaves behind sons Haris and Tariq and wife Hamra.According to the KaraFilm festival, a pioneering documentary filmmaker and formidable intellectual, […]
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a local journalist in north-west Pakistan, police say. Maqbool Hussain Siyal was killed in a drive-by shooting in the town of Dera Ismail Khan late on September 14. Police say they are looking for two masked gunmen who were riding a motorbike. They have made no arrests but are questioning […]
By Our Staff Reporter KARACHI, Sept 13: Wahid Dino, a senior page-maker of Dawn, died here on Wednesday at the age of 53. He has left behind four sons and a daughter, besides his widow, to mourn his death. His Namaz-i-Janaza will be offered in Masjid Khairul Amal, Ancholi, after Zuhr on Thursday. He will […]
By Mohammad Yasin RAWALPINDI, Sept 12: Zaigham Zaidi, one of Pakistan’s best-known photojournalists, is no more. He died on Monday, aged 76, after a three-month coma and a protracted illness of four years. Mr. Zaidi, who is survived by two wives – one of them being journalist Rubab Aisha – three sons and one daughter, […]
Well-known economic writer Sirjul Hasan died of heart failure here on Wednesday evening. Sirjula Hasan, 82, joined the ministry of food and agriculture soon after partition and retired as deputy chief marketing. Adviser about two decades back. He was buried in Sakhi Hasan graveyard after Zohr prayers on Thursday. Quran khawani will be held on […]
KARACHI, September 05 2006: Veteran journalist Lateef Jafri was found dead in his Gulistan-i-Jauhar residence on Monday (Sept 04). He was 74. Mr Jafri’s relatives said he had been living alone because his wife was with his Canada-based son. His daughter lived in the United Arab Emirates. A diabetic patient, Mr Jafri is believed to […]
ISLAMABAD, September 02 2006: Malik Lal Khan Awan, father-in-law of Dawn’s senior correspondent Qudssia Akhlaque, passed away in Lahore on Friday (Sept 01) after protracted illness. He was a former industrialist and is survived by his wife and 10 children, five daughters and five sons. He was buried in the Bagh-e-Rehmat graveyard in Lahore. Malik […]
KARACHI, September 02 2006: Ahmed Saeed Nagi, known as the official artist of the freedom movement, passed away on Friday (Sept 01) night in the Aga Khan Hospital in Karachi. He was 90. Three sons and a daughter survive him. Nagi had the honor of painting a portrait of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1944. […]
PESHAWAR, August 18 2006: Senior Journalist and former Bureau Chief of PPI Mansoor Ahmad died of cardiac attack this morning. He was 55. The deceased was an experienced journalist who worked with the Daily Frontier Post Peshawar, Daily Khyber Mail, Daily Statesman and Daily Mashriq Peshawar. At present he was working in the media cell […]
LAHORE, July 11 2006: Veteran poet, short story and drama writer and columnist Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, who died here on July 10 morning of asthmatic problems after a short illness, was laid to rest in a local graveyard. He was 89. Qasmi Sahib had been admitted to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Saturday with […]
KARACHI, July 04 2006: Senior journalist Iqbal Qasim died this morning of complications following a brain operation for a tumour. He was bureau manager of daily Ausaf till sometime ago after which he had joined a television channel. He suffered paralysis of one side for which he underwent brain operation recently. Source: Daily News Date:7/4/2006
LAHORE, June 05 2006: Noted journalist Zafar Samdani died of throat cancer here on May 04. He was 72. Beginning his career as a reporter with the Pakistan Times, Mr Samdani joined Pakistan Television after its inception in 1964. He was one of the pioneers of PTV’s news section. He retired from PTV as director […]
HYDERABAD, May 25 2006: Khair Muhammad Khokhar , veteran journalist and editor of Sindhi daily, Ibrat, died here on Tuesday at the age of after a protracted illness. He suffered from diabetes an was recently admitted to a local hospital. Born in 1934, the late Khokhar remained a bachelor. He atarted his career in 1951 […]
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