KARACHI, July 25: Former bureau chief of the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), Salim Alvi, who died here on Sunday, was buried in the Defence Society graveyard on Monday. He was 85 and is survived by a son and two daughters.
Mr Alvi was witness to many developments that led to the creation of Pakistan. Born in 1920 in Rajhastan and brought up in Delhi and Shimla, he went to Sir Harcourt Butler High School and graduated in 1943 from the Anglo-Arabic College which was the main centre of Muslim League activities.
Mr Alvi started his journalistic career with the Orient Press of India, which Syed Mohammad wanted to develop into a Muslim News Agency and incidentally became the first victim of independence. He then joined the Associated Press of India and the Free Press Journal of Bombay.
Immediately after partition he came to Lahore where he was appointed by the West Punjab government of Nawab Mamdot as information officer.
He later left the job and moved to Karachi where he joined The Sindh Observer. He also worked with the Times of Karachi and the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore, before joining the APP. He retired in 1980.
Mr Alvi has written a book “Pakistan: Illusion and reality, observations of a journalist” in which he has pieced together his observations of the transition of India towards partition, independence of Pakistan, military interventions, emergence of Bangladesh and the MQM phenomenon.
The soyem will be held from 3pm to 6pm on Tuesday at his residence, B-147, block 4-A, Gulshan-i-Iqbal.
KARACHI, July 25: Former bureau chief of the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), Salim Alvi, who died here on Sunday, was buried in the Defence Society graveyard on Monday. He was 85 and is survived by a son and two daughters.
