Journalist Saadat Ali Turk passes away in Haripur | Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)

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Journalist Saadat Ali Turk passes away in Haripur

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HARIPUR: Senior journalist Raja Saadat Ali Turk passed away here on Sunday, family and hospital sources confirmed. He was 58 and left behind a widow, two sons and a daughter to mourn his death.

According to family sources, Saadat Ali Turk, known as Raja Sahib among his friends and acquaintances, came home from the local market complaining of severe pain in his jaws. His family shifted him to the trauma centre where his ECG was underway when he breathed his last.

Doctors on duty said the cause of death was severe cardiac arrest.

He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Malikyar village on Sunday night.

Journalists, teachers, local body councillors, social activists and religious leaders attended the funeral.

Raja Sahib, during his journalistic career spanned over two decades, remained affiliated with different local, regional and national Urdu dailies, news channels and web-based media platforms.

Source: Dawn


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