Obituaries 2012

They left us for their heavenly abodes……

Saturday, June 1, 2013: Riaz-ur-Rehman Saghar, celebrated journalist-poet-lyricist, 72, of cancer in Lahore.

Friday, May 24, 2013: Ahmed Ali Joiya, 25, who worked as a reporter for several local newspapers and magazines, shot dead for reportedly helping police in an investigation in Bahawalnagar.

Monday, May 6, 2013: Group Editor of Daily Express, a renowned journalist and columnist Syed Abbas Athar, 74, of cancer, in Lahore.

Monday, April 29, 2013: Peshawar journalist Arif Shafi, 36, who worked for Pajhwok Afghan News in Kabul; in a bomb blast on University Road, Peshawar

Tuesday April 16, 2013:  Aslam Durrani, of Daily Pakistan; killed in a suicide bomb attack at an ANP rally in Peshawar.

Sunday, April 15, 2013:  Journalist Malik Zulfiqar, of heart attack, in Islamabad.

Sunday, March 31, 2013:  Dilshad Azeem, Senior Reporter, The News; of Hepatitis C; in Islamabad.

Thursday, March 21, 2013:  Zakir Hussain Syed, renowned columnist, sports administrator and commentator; 73, of heart attack in Islamabad.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013:  Senior journalist and ex-student leader Lalarukh Hussain, founding member of MAG Weekly, who also worked for Daily News, Medical Gazette, APP, The Sun, Business Recorder, Dawn and SHE magazine; of brain hemorrhage in Los Angeles, United States.

Friday, March 15, 2013:  F. E. Choudhry, 104, Pakistan's oldest photographer and the country's first full-time Press photographer and a recipent of Tamgh-i-Khidmat, President's Award for Pride of Performance, and Tehrik-i-Pakistan Gold Medal; in Lahore.

Friday, March 1, 2013:  Mehmood Afridi, senior journalist and President of Kalat Press Club; shot dead by terrorists in Kalat (Balochistan).

Wednesday, February 27, 2013:  Malik Mumtaz , correspondent of The News, Jang and Geo TV in North Waziristan; gunned down by unidentified gunmen in Miranshah.

Monday, February 25, 2013:  Khushnood Ali Sheikh, of APP, killed in a hit and run accident in Karachi. Some circles believe he was targeted.

Saturday, February 2, 2013:  Ayesha Haroon, 46, former editor of The News and The Nation; of cancer, in New York.

Saturday, February 2, 2013:  Sirajul Haque Memon, former chief editor of Daily Hilal-i-Pakistan and a distinguished intellectual of Sindh; in Karachi.

Thursday, January 31, 2013:  Senior journalist Jameel Anjum Mufti, 62; of a heart attack. He worked for several newspapers including The Nation and The Frontier Post.

Monday, January 28, 2013:  Malik Khalid Iqbal, 60, senior freelance photojournalist; of cardiac arrest, in Peshawar.

Saturday, January 12, 2013:  Zahid Akkasi, writer, journalist and filmmaker; in Lahore.

Thursday, January 10, 2013: Saif ur Rehman, a reporter with Samaa TV; killed in a bomb blast in Quetta.

Thursday, January 10, 2013: Imran Shaikh, a Samaa TV cameraman; killed in a bomb blast in Quetta.

Thursday, January 10, 2013:  Photojournalist Muhammad Iqbal, of NNI; killed in a bomb blast in Quetta.