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A.B.S Jafri passes away

KARACHI, Nov 17: Senior journalist A.B.S. Jafri, a prolific writer and commentator who authored at least 10 books, died after a short illness on Monday morning. He was 76. He will be buried in the DHA graveyard in Phase IV on Tuesday after Zuhar prayers. His Namaz-i-Janaza will be offered at Sultan Masjid, Khayaban-i-Bahria, DHA. […]


Photographer dies

KARACHI- A senior photographer of an Urdu daily, Mohammad Asghar Bhatti, died of heart attack here on August 15, 2003. He is survived by a widow, a daughter and two sons. Mr. Bhatti had been associated with Daily Jang for the past six years. He had also worked for several dailies and foreign news agencies. […]


Business Recorder staffer passes away

KARACHI- Tufail Ahmed, 68, production manager of the daily Business Recorder, died of abdominal cancer on August 6, 2003. Tufail Ahmed had joined Business Recorder in 1965. After serving the newspaper for nine years he left it in 1974 and settled down in the United States of America. He came back in 1988 and rejoined […]


Senior journalist Athar Hosain Shah dies

ISLAMABAD- Senior journalist and Editor of Quaid-i- Azam Papers Project Syed Athar Hosain Shah died of cardiac arrest at a local hospital on August 4, 2003 at 3pm at the age of 65. He is survived by a widow, a son and three daughters. Syed Athar Hosain Shah suffered heart attack on August 3, 2003 […]


Senior journalist Sharif Kamal passes away

KARACHI- Sharif Kamal Usmani, a senior journalist died on July 10th, 2003 morning after protracted illness, at the age of 66. He was buried at Paposh Nagar graveyard. He opted for the profession of journalism in the early 1960s by joining an Urdu Daily ‘Anjam’ as an education reporter. Later, he joined another Urdu newspaper, […]


Chairman Adarts, Chaudhry Ghafur passes away

KARACHI- Prominent advertising personality Chaudhry Abdul Ghafur, Chairman of Adarts, a leading national advertising agency passed away on July 9th, 2003 at the age of 81. He was survived by his son, Ghalib Mansoor, Director Adarts and four daughters. The late Chaudhry Abdul Ghafur had played a pioneering role in establishing the advertising industry in […]


Journalist Shabir Shah passes away

ISLAMABAD- Veteran journalist and former bureau chief of The Pakistan Times, Islamabad, Syed Shabir Hussain Shah died here on July 5th, 2003 following an illness at the age of 85. He has left behind four sons and two daughters. Shabir Shah, born in Gujrat in 1918, got his early education from Gujrat and then graduated […]


Haroon Rind passes away

KARACHI- A senior producer of the Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV), Haroon Rind, passed away on July 2nd, 2003 after protracted illness. He was 57. He has left behind a widow, two sons and two daughters. According to the PTV sources, late Rind started his career from PTV Karachi Centre as a producer. He produced a […]


Mukhtar Zaman passes away

KARACHI- One of the old-timers of Pakistani journalism, Mukhtar Zaman, died of brain hemorrhage here on July 2nd, 2003 at a hospital. He was 80. He has left behind a widow, Salma Zaman, former principal of Sir Syed Girls College, and two daughters, one of whom is professor at the NED University, Karachi, while the […]


Senior journalists remembered

KARACHI- Rich tributes were paid at a joint reference held under the auspices of the Karachi Press Club to its four late council members — Syed Manzar-ul-Hasan, editor of an evening newspaper, Salman Hussain, ex-special correspondent APP, A.R Slote, eminent film journalists and Syed Mehdi Shirazi, a free lance. At the reference presided over by […]


A. R. Slote passes away

KARACHI- Abdul Razzak Slote, popularly known in journalist community as A. R. Slote, died of cancer in Houston, US, on June 13th, 2003. He leaves behind a son, Sohail, and a daughter, Seema, both are settled in the US.A. R. Slote was a well-known journalist who worked for different local and international English, Urdu and […]


Veteran Sports journalist BA Burki passes away

LAHORE – Leading sports journalist and international Grade-1 hockey umpire Bazid Ahmad Khan Burki died here June 4th, 2003 after a prolonged illness. Late Baurki was 63 and died this morning at a local hospital where he was under treatment for the past one month for multiple diseases. He is survived by two sons and […]


Zafar Siddiqui passes away

KARACHI- Senior broadcaster of Radio Pakistan Zafar Siddiqui, who died on May 31, 2003 after a protracted illness, was buried at the Defence graveyard after Zohr prayers on June 01, 2003. He was 74. His funeral was largely attended besides relatives by radio artists, broadcasters and journalists. He leaves his wife and a son Amir […]


Mohsin Ali passes away

KARACHI- Former director of Pakistan Television (PTV) and a prominent TV producer, Syed Mohsin Ali, died after a prolonged illness in Karachi on May 23, 2003. He was 62. Syed Mohsin Ali joined PTV in 1967. He produced a number of popular TV dramas. Prominent among those are Taabeer, Kiran Kahani, Shahzori, Uncle Urfi, Shaheen […]