The end of an era !!!!!

The End ........ WITH the death of Ahmed Ali Khan, Pakistani journalism has lost one of its most distinguished pioneers. He joined Dawn in 1946 in Delhi and migrated to Pakistan in 1949. After a stint at The Pakistan Times he went back to Dawn to subsequently become its longest-serving editor. His professional competence was accompanied by an inspiring confidence and an admirable humility. In Pakistan, the journalist faces two great enemies. The first is governmental oppression. The second, at least as devastating, is the apathy of the readers; nothing moves our jaded masses anymore. No report of an injustice, or a wrong or excess does quite the trick. Like a warrior, pensive during a lull in a war, Mr. Khan once wrote “Rarely have I patted myself in the back for any achievement I could claim to have made. But my strenuous engagement in the line of duty has been a labour of love, though punctuated on occasions with a sense of futility. Frustration has often been my reward. And yet sometimes I permit myself the luxury of imagining that journalism does make sense – or did for me