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 […]
TOBA TEK SINGH- Senior photographer and press club founder member Ismail Shaheen died of heart failure here on May 17, 2003. He was laid to rest at the central graveyard where hundreds of people offered funeral prayer. Source: Dawn Date:5/18/2003
HYDERABAD-The News Editor of Daily Ibrat, Ghulam Qadir Memon, was killed in a road accident along with a colleague at Nooriabad in the wee hours on May 6, 2003. News Editor of Sindhi daily was going to Karachi when their car No. G-6291 collided with a trawler no-LSA-3196 at Sultan Jakhro Hotel in Nooriabad. The […]
KARACHI- Syed Manzar-ul-Hasan, one of the country’s senior most newsmen and editor of The Leader, died here on May 6, 2003 after a protracted illness. He was 83. He was suffering from pneumonia and obstructive jaundice, and was admitted to the Aga Khan University Hospital’s intensive care unit last week. Mr Manzar-ul-Hasan was laid to […]
KARACHI- Former Dawn staffer Maisoon Hussein passed away in the early hours of March 18, 2003. She was suffering from cancer. Her namaz-i-janaza was held at Mehfil-i-Murtaza and she was laid to rest at Hussaini Bagh. Maisoon joined Dawn in July 1981 when she took charge of the Women’s Section and Children’s Dawn, as the […]
MUTLAN- Eisar Raee, a veteran journalist and chief editor of local Urdu daily Qaumi Awaz who died of protracted illness at Nishtar hospital on January 19th, 2003 was laid to rest on January 20th afternoon. His Namaz-i-Janaza was attended by hundreds of people from different walks of life. Source: Dawn Date:1/21/2003
LAHORE- Renowned feature writer Riaz Husain Batalvi died here on January 15, 2003 afternoon. He was 66. He remained associated with defunct daily Mashriq for decades and earned popularity for writing features on social issues. He had been a columnist of daily Insaaf and looking after the affair of Punjab Post before his death. Batalvi […]
NAWABSHAH- Senior journalist and the president of the Nawabshah Press Club, Jamaluddin Bhatti, 50, breathed his last at the Civil Hospital, Karachi, on January 16, 2003 after a prolonged illness Source: The Nation Date:1/16/2003
LAHORE- The veteran journalist and former bureau chief of daily ‘Hurriyat’ and life member of Lahore Press Club, Tauseef Ahmed Khan, passed away here on December 25, 2002. He was 70. He was suffering from bladder cancer and was admitted to the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital a week ago, where he died of heart attack […]
KARACHI- A veteran press photographer, Nisar Ahmed, died on December 10, 2002, he was 80. The late Nisar Ahmed worked for several newspapers and wire services in his professional career. His son Zafar Ahmed is also a senior press photographer. Source: Dawn Date:12/11/2002
KARACHI- Renowned journalist Mahmood Ahmad Madni died after a protracted illness on December 6, 2002. He was 65. He is survived by a widow, five daughters and four sons. He got up on December 6, afternoon to offer Namaz-e-Juma but fell on the bed and passed away. Central Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Syed Munawwar Hassan […]
GUJRANWALA- A senior-most journalist of the city, Mahmood Amjad Mir, the eldest brother of an Urdu daily’s correspondent, Ijaz Mir, passed away after a protracted illness on the night of December 5, 2002. He was 81. Mahmood started his professional career from the Zamindar newspaper and remained the chief editor of Industrial Times, Inqilaab, Nawa-i-Sanat […]
RAWALPINDI- Raja Manzoor Hussain Jaafari, senior journalist and former coordination editor of daily Jang-The News, breathed his last here on December 6, 2002. He was 71. He was buried in Pindi’s Jadid graveyard on December 7, 2002. A large number of people belonging to various walks of life participated in his funeral. Late Manzoor Hussain […]
ISLAMABAD- Former Managing Director of Pakistan Television (PTV) and former Director PTV) and famous compere Anwar Hussain died on November 9, 2002 night. He was laid to rest at a local graveyard. Source: Business Recorder Date:11/11/2002
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