Syed Sultan Hasan
His funeral prayers will be held on Monday (today) at Sultan Masjid in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Karachi after Asr prayers.
Hasan was born to a middle class family in North Nazimabad and was the eldest son of government employee Sarfaraz Hussain.
Hasan started his career as an information officer in the Sindh government in the 1970s. He graduated from DG Science College and did his Masters from University of Karachi. After leaving his government job, he joined the Karachi Cotton Exchange as a public relations officer. He also headed the public relations departments of the then Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC), which, after its privatisation, is known as K-Electric. Hasan, being a friendly media manger, not only handled the media but also defended KESC policy before leaving the power utility company to join Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) as general manager for public relations. Later, he joined CMC consulting company and, for a short while, Ziauddin Hospital as well as a media person.
According to Farhat Saeed, one of his close friends, Hasan had also joined Benazir Bhutto’s media team when she was elected as the prime minister of Pakistan for the second time in 1993. “He worked at Prime Minister House and then left the job, saying he was not comfortable there,” Saeed added.
Hasan was a life-long bachelor and spent the last moments of his life with the family of his maternal uncle in Lahore where he suffered a heart attack. He is survived by his father, five sisters and four brothers.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 9th, 2016.
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