Obituary: Veteran journalist dies

Raja Zaffar Hussain, 65, died of cardiac arrest in Muzzafarabad on Monday.

MIRPUR: A senior journalist Raja Zaffar Hussain died of cardiac arrest in Muzzafarabad on Monday. He was 65. Zaffar served as the chief editor for a local Urdu daily “Domail” and his journalistic career spanned four decades. The Jammu and Kashmir Journalists’ Organisation has expressed grief over Hussain’s demise. The organisation’s President Hafiz Maqsood Mirza, in a condolence statement, termed his death an irreparable loss to the state press, family and friends. Hussain will be laid to rest in Muzzaffarabad on Tuesday.

Published In The Express Tribune, June 26^th, 2012.