KARACHI: Rehmat Bibi wife of Late Usman Haji and mother of Hanif Sheikh, Business Recorder Marketing & Advertisement Department and Younus Sheikh of The Conquest passes away on Thursday, (April 12, 2006), after brief illness. Her Soyem will be held April 13, 2006, Friday after Asr prayers at Sabri Masjid, Ranchore Line near Poona Bhai […]
KARACHI, February 23 2006: Senior journalist Abdul Rashid Khan alias Rashid Niaz passed away on Wednesday February 22 morning at the Liaquat National Hospital. He was 64. He has left behind his mother, besides widow, a daughter and a son. His funeral was attended by a large number of his relatives, friends, senior journalists, besides […]
QUETTA, February 21 2006: Senior journalist and former president of the Quetta Press Club Ikram Ahmed died in Karachi after a protracted illness. He was 47. He leaves behind his wife, three sons, parents, brothers and sisters. Ikram Ahmed was under treatment for seven months in Karachi. Source: Dawn Date:2/21/2006
KARACHI, January 28 2006: Naseem Taqvi, a journalist, poet and critic, died here on Wednesday January 25 night after protracted illness. He was buried in the Sakhi Hasan graveyard on Thursday. He was 62. A former staffer of daily Nawa-i-Waqt, Mr Taqvi was author of several books of prose and poetry. Source: Dawn Date:1/28/2006
LAHORE, January 26 2006: Journalist Zafaryab Ahmad died of cardiac arrest here on Wednesday January 25. He was 53. Mr Zafaryab, during his career as journalist, had served the daily Dawn, weekly Viewpoint and daily The Frontier Post. He also edited the first Punjabi newspaper of the country, Sajjan, in 1990. He was given the […]
KARACHI, January 24 2006: Prominent writer, intellectual and critic Prof Riaz Siddiqui, 62, died on Monday January 23 at the Jinnah Hospital, where he was shifted after being injured in a traffic accident on Sharea Faisal in the morning. He has left the widow, a son and a daughter. He was buried in the Liaquatabad […]
KASUR, January 19 2006: A local senior journalist Dr Muhammad Afzal Nasir passed away here on Wednesday January 18. He was 85. He served as a journalist for 50 years in different newspapers. His Namaz-e-Jinaza was offered here at Kot Rukun Din and a large number of people including journalists participated. Source: The News Date:1/19/2006
KARACHI, January 16 2006: Long time Business Recorder staffer and senior journalist Ghulam Hassan Malik breathed his last late Saturday January 14 night at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. He was suffering from acute liver cancer. He was 72. He leaves behind four sons and two daughters, besides a large number of friends and admirers to […]
Zaheer Ahmed Khan KARACHI, January 06 2006: A senior journalist, economic writer, columnist and poet, Mr Rafique Jabir, died here on Thursday January 5 after a brief illness. He was 75. A former editor of the defunct Morning News and the Trade and Industry weekly, he was known as a leading economic writer and analyst, […]
KARACHI, October 08 2005: Mr Hashmul Mannan, Manager Plate-making, Dawn Group of Newspapers, died on early Friday October 7 morning. He was 53. The funeral prayers were offered at Masjid-i-Babul Islam, Sector No 7—D/3, North Karachi, near Anda Morr, after Juma prayers. He was laid to rest in the Sakhi Hassan graveyard in the afternoon. […]
ISLAMABAD, October 04 2005: Speakers paid glowing tributes to the hard work, honesty and professionalism of noted journalist Khalid Akhtar who died of heart attack last month. A reference in the memory of Khalid Akhtar was organised at the National Press Club here Monday October 3. It was attended by journalists, friends and family members […]
ISLAMABAD, September 23 2005: Senior journalist and Editor Production and Coordination of daily The News Rawalpindi, Khalid Akhtar, died on Thursday September 22 after a brief illness. He was 70. Khalid Akhtar was admitted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on September 15 due to cardiac arrest. He remained there in coma for […]
Shamim-ur-Rehman KARACHI, September 06 2005: Journalist, writer, poet and political activist Hasan Abidi died in Karachi on Tuesday September 5 following a heart attack. He was 76. Mr Abidi, who had become a freelance journalist after a long association with the Dawn Group of Newspapers, used to write a weekly literary column for Dawn’s Karachi […]
QUETTA, Aug 17 2005: Ex-MNA and former editor of the Quetta Times weekly, Gool Rustomji, who died here on Monday August 15, was laid to rest in the Parsi graveyard. She was 92. Mrs Rustomji belonged to a respected philanthropist family of the provincial capital. She was daughter of late Peston Galwala. Her family set […]
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