Doyen remembered

The staff members of Business Recorder, at a condolence meeting held here on Wednesday, lauded the contributions of the late M. A. Zuberi, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Business Recorder and Patron-in-Chief of Aaj News, that he rendered in the field of economic and financial journalism in Pakistan.
The meeting held at newspaper's newsroom was chaired by Editor Business Recorder Wamiq A. Zuberi. The two other sons of the late Zuberi were also present at a condolence meeting of a veteran journalist of sub-continent who has left behind a rich legacy of life dedicated to the profession of economic and financial journalism. The meeting began with the recitation of the Holy Quran by Rafiq Baloch.
Speakers said that the late Zuberi started his career with Dawn where he worked for it for nearly 20 years. In 1965, he launched his own newspaper, Business Recorder, and in a very short span of time the newspaper had become one of the leading English dailies in Pakistan and a top financial daily of the Muslim world. They said that M. A. Zuberi always took very good care of the staff members of the newspaper and treated them as colleagues, not as employees. Wamiq A Zuberi said his father was a true Pakistani, and his inspiration sprang from glorious days of Pakistan Movement.
He reaffirmed his determination that M. A. Zuberi's mission would continue. "We the team members would try our level best to run this institution in accordance with the vision of its founder M. A. Zuberi," he said. Arshad Zuberi, Deputy Chief Executive of Business Recorder, said his father was a true working journalist in his approach to journalism or work.
Asif Zuberi, the publisher of the newspaper, spoke about the early journalistic career of his father. He quoted his father as saying: "I started my career as journalist under the supervision and guidance of some leading lights of that time".
Those who attended the meeting included: Saeed Sarbazi, Muhammad Zahid, Tayyab Farooq, Muhammad Rafi, Wahid Bashir, Ali Khizar, Muhammad Israr, Raees Ahmed Khan, Shafiq Ahmed Shafiq, Munazza Zuberi, Seema Shafi, Abida Rafi, Sheema Zain, Zaheer Shaikh, Ehtisham Anwar, Nayyar Zuberi, Ahmed Malik, Rizwan Bhatti, Anwar Khan, Muhammad Ali, Nasir Taimori, Saad Bukhari, Ishrat Ansari, Sohaib Jamali, Haider Nawab, Khalid Sheikh, Mujib Turk, Javed Sanawar, Shahnaz Kheradi, Iqbal Hussain, Afaq Ahmad, Ehtesham Hussain, Faqir Iqtidar, Nasim Ahsan, Abdul Waheed Rathore, Hanif Sheikh, Asad Naeem, Basma Ahmed, Amir Ansari, Waseem Hasan Khan, Younus Zafar and Akhtar Bashir.