Hasan was on his way to work when he suffered fatal heart attack. PHOTO: FILE
GILGIT:
A pioneering journalist from Gilgit-Baltistan, Saeed Hasan, suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away on Wednesday at age 58. Hasan was on his way to work when he suffered the fatal heart attack at about 2pm.
He was immediately shifted to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. Saeed Hassan began his career as a journalist 23 years ago as a subeditor at the Urdu daily Markaz in Islamabad.
However, a year later he moved to Gilgit, where he spent the rest of his life. During the past eight years, Hasan remained associated with Aaj TV as a reporter and was the bureau chief for Urdu daily Baad-e-Shimal. “He was a teacher for all of his colleagues,” said senior journalist and neighbour, Imtiaz Taj, “We will always miss him.”
Hasan also had a long association with the journalist union and press club in Gilgit. He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Amphary, Gilgit in the presence of hundreds of people. Saeed Hasan is survived by two sons and a widow.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 6th, 2014.
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Saeed Hassan was one of the most prominent and pioneer journalist in Gilgit-Baltistan who struggled alot to promote the journalism in such a difficult area when there was no attraction in this profession. It is the result of these leading journalists devotion and restlesness work today, most of young blood are decline and wish to become journalist and adopt as career.
I suggest all my journalist community of Gilgit-Baltistan to follow the foot steps of Saeed Hassan and let no stone un-turned so that the local community may get fruits of the profession and we as journalist could bring a visible positive change in the society.