Senior journalist, ex-student leader Lalrukh Hussain passes away
By: Shahid Husain
Karachi: Senior journalist, founding member of the MAG Weekly and ex-student leader Lalarukh Hussain died of brain haemorrhage in Los Angeles.
Lalarukh, fondly called “Lali” by her friends, used to work for the left-wing National Students Federation in the late 1960s and the early 1970s.
She acquired a degree in journalism from the University of Karachi in 1972 and worked for several magazines and newspapers.
Lalarukh joined the Jang Group’s evening newspaper the Daily News in 1979 and started conducting interviews and writing feature stories for its weekly magazine. Veteran journalist SM Fazal was the editor.
“But the government objected as to why Daily News was publishing a weekly magazine and hence the MAG was launched as a separate entity and I was its editor and Lalarukh its founding staff member,” Fazal told The News.
Later, she joined the Medical Gazette published by the Pakistan Medical Association and then worked for the Associated Press of Pakistan.
She also worked for The Sun newspaper and daily Business Recorder.
She was a student activist and women rights’ crusader before joining journalism. Lalarukh also worked for Dawn from 1981 to 1983.
She later became editor of SHE magazine.
Lalarukh was jailed during the journalists’ movement in 1978. She had been living in Los Angeles since 1997.
She got married to Zahid Hussain. Her husband too emerged as a distinguished journalist, author and analyst. She leaves behind two children to mourn her death. She will be laid to rest in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Source; The News
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