Thursday, November 19, 2009

Chief-Editor of Srinagar Times, Sofi Ghulam Muhammad,passed away His funeral was attended by the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani,

Chief-Editor of Srinagar Times, Sofi Ghulam Muhammad, 77, passed away funeral was attended by the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Zaffar Akbar Bhat.

prominent Kashmiri journalist, Chief-Editor of Srinagar Times, Sofi Ghulam Muhammad, 77, passed away after a , prolonged illness in Srinagar, t after a prolonged illnes, today.Ghulam Mohammad Sofi was Editor-in-Chief of and printer and publisher of popular Urdu daily, Srinagar Times. He breathed his last at Soura Institute of Medical Sciences, where he was undergoing treatment for the past two weeks. He is survived by wife and seven daughters.
His funeral was attended by the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Zaffar Akbar Bhat, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Shabbir Ahmad Dar and a large number of Hurriyet leaders and activists and people belonging to different walks of life. They prayed for peace to the departed soul and courage to the bereaved family to bear this irreparable loss.
Sofi who started his journalistic career as a reporter in Congress mouthpiece 'Khidmat' in 1960s launched his own newspaper, Srinagar Times, in 1969. He had been President of Kashmir Press Club and Daily Newspaper Editors Conference a number of times. He also authorised several books.

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