KARACHI, May 30: Hameed Haroon, president of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society, and its secretary-general Mohammad Aslam Kazi have expressed their profound grief on the death of Tahir Mirza, former editor of Dawn.

They said in Mr Mirza’s death the newspaper industry had lost a veteran journalist, editor and columnist. Mr Mirza was a decent person and a man of high calibre who served the print media for many decades.

They added that Mr Mirza’s death was a loss for the profession which had been deprived of a talented and disciplined editor and columnist.

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