KARACHI, June 21: Speakers at a programme at the Arts Council paid glowing tributes to Syed Moinuddin Shah, renowned broadcaster, poet and publisher, here on Thursday. Syed Moinuddin Shah is known as one of the pioneers at the Radio Pakistan, a veteran broadcaster at the BBC Urdu Service in London and the publisher of London-based literary periodical `Urdu Adab’, which earned him fame and respect among the global Urdu literati.

The speakers who spoke on the life and times of the late Mr Shah included Prof Sahar Ansari, Syed Aizazuddin Shah, Azhar Abbas Hashmi, Dr Ayesha Haider and London-based Urdu poet Noorjehan Noori.

The speakers said the late Mr Shah was the continuation of the tradition that his father Hazrat Shah Dilgir Akbarabadi had set in 1913 by publishing ‘Naqqad’, one of the most respected Urdu journals of his time, from Agra.