Nayyar Alvi passes away
KARACHI- Nayyar Alvi, senior journalist and editor of Urdu newspaper Express, died of heart failure. He was 62. He was buried in COD graveyard in the afternoon.
According to members of his family, Mr Alvi felt pain in his chest after dinner, he was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. He leaves behind wife, a daughter and three sons.
Born on Oct 2, 1939, at Dehradun (Uttar Pradesh) in the undivided India, Mr Alvi moved to Pakistan after partition. After graduating from Punjab University, he started his journalistic career as a sub-editor in Jang, Rawalpindi. On shifting to Karachi in 1962, he got a law degree from S.M. Law College. He also took a Master’s degree in politics from Karachi University.
Mr Alvi was the founding news-editor of the daily Hurriyat. Afterwards he worked in the same organization as the executive editor. He was associated with Jang, Jasarat, Mashal, Sadaqat, Daily Sun, Anjam, Ailan, National Book Foundation as news-editor, executive editor and editor. He worked in Nawa-i-Waqt as editor from 1983 to 1998 when he joined Express as its founding editor.
Apart from translating books, which were subsequently published by the National Book Foundation and the Urdu Academy, Sindh, into the Urdu language, Mr Alvi wrote programmes on social and political subjects for television and radio. He also worked as a copywriter for 10 years.
Sindh Governor Mohammedmian Soomro expressed sorrow over the death of Nayyar Alvi. Federal Information Secretary Syed Anwar Mehmood, in a condolence message, also paid tribute to Mr. Alvi’s commitment to the profession.
The principal information officer of the Press Information Department, Ashfaq Ahmed Gondal, also expressed sorrow at the demise of Mr. Alvi.
The general-secretary of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), Kazi Asad Abid, lauded the professional services of Mr Alvi in a condolence message.
Source: The News
Date:9/30/2001
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