Dawn staffer passes away
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 Young World was called in those days. With a master’s degree in sociology, she gradually broadened her interests to other areas of journalism.
Her commitment to human rights causes and her humanitarian interest in the disadvantaged sections of the population prompted her to investigate the problems of human rights, women, handicapped children and other oppressed groups and write about them.
When she took ill, she was managing the Letters columns of the paper which she did with great meticulousness and a sense of fairness and objectivity.
She was a member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in which she played an active role.
Her colleagues at Dawn held a condolence meeting on March 18, 2003 to pay tributes to her for her long and dedicated service to the paper. A resolution adopted at the meeting recalled Maisoon’s dedication and said she had impressed her colleagues and those who came in contact with her efficiency, devotion and integrity.
“Towards the latter stages of her career, Maisoon devoted herself increasingly to human rights causes, particularly special children, prisoners, women and minority rights and the cause of freedom of the press,” the resolution said.
“For the last six months, she had become aware of the fact that she was suffering from cancer, but this did not dampen her spirit. She continued to write for the causes she believed in and was a source of inspiration to her colleagues and human rights activists.”
Later, fateha was offered for the departed soul.
Source: Dawn
Date:3/19/2003
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