Committed to the end: Tribune staffer passes away
Javed leaves behind two children and a wife and a host of mournful colleagues
Express Tribune photo-journalist, Muhammad Javed. PHOTO: COURTESY FACEBOOK
ISLAMABAD:
Muhammad Javed, a photojournalist with The Express Tribune in Islamabad passed away on Thursday after a protracted illness.
The 52-year-old had recently been diagnosed with bone cancer after having suffered from tuberculosis for an extended period of time. He had been recently admitted to a local hospital. He, however, succumbed to his illness on Thursday evening.
Javed leaves behind two children and a wife and a host of mournful colleagues.
His body was taken to his home on Adiala Road in Rawalpindi. His funeral prayers would be offered on Friday afternoon.
The photojournalist had been associated with The Express Tribune for the past seven years and had covered a number of major events in and around Islamabad from the two plane crashes, to the change of govt in 2013 and the four-month long protest by a political party.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 17th, 2017.
Muhammad Javed, a photojournalist with The Express Tribune in Islamabad passed away on Thursday after a protracted illness.
The 52-year-old had recently been diagnosed with bone cancer after having suffered from tuberculosis for an extended period of time. He had been recently admitted to a local hospital. He, however, succumbed to his illness on Thursday evening.
Javed leaves behind two children and a wife and a host of mournful colleagues.
His body was taken to his home on Adiala Road in Rawalpindi. His funeral prayers would be offered on Friday afternoon.
The photojournalist had been associated with The Express Tribune for the past seven years and had covered a number of major events in and around Islamabad from the two plane crashes, to the change of govt in 2013 and the four-month long protest by a political party.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 17th, 2017.