KARACHI, March 29: Speakers paid glowing tributes to late Sardar Ali Sabri, a renowned journalist and worker of the Pakistan movement at a local hotel on Thursday. The meeting was organised by Sardar Ali Sabri Memorial Society and presided over by federal Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani.

Humor writer Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi was conferred the Mir Khalilur Rehman National Solidarity Award while the University of Karachi position-holders of the 2005 and 2006 batches of the Mass Communication Department were given medals.

Others who spoke and eulogized services of late Sabri included Dr Mehmood Ghaznavi,

Professor Raees Alavi,

Mehmood Sham, Shafiqur Rehman Paracha and Arshad Sabri.—Staff Reporter