Senior journalist, intellectual and former president of Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) and All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), Syed Fasieh Iqbal, died here at a local hospital after a protracted illness. He was 78. Fasieh was suffering from renal disease for a long time and was under treatment at Kidney Centre Karachi, where he breathed his last on Thursday.
According to family sources, his funeral prayers will be offered on Friday (today) at Masjid Bilal, PHA Flats Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Block 10, after Jumma prayer. His body will be taken to Quetta for burial. Fasieh Iqbal was born in Allahabad, UP, India, in 1936. He did his masters in Journalism from Punjab University. Fasieh Iqbal started his career as a journalist in 1954 by bringing out Daily Zamana from Quetta. In 1976, he founded Balochistan's first-ever English language newspaper, daily Balochistan Times. Fasieh was also elected to Senate twice in 1985 and 1988.