Time and place of funeral prayer will be announced later
Prestigious writer Tahir Ikram died at a Kuala Lumpur emergency clinic in the extremely early times of Sunday.
Ikram — previous Thomson Reuters writer and spearheading program overseer of a confidential Television station in Pakistan — surrendered to unexpected issues following a coronary episode.
Ikram had experienced a monstrous respiratory failure prior over the course of the end of the week, affirmed his family sources. He was filling in as the news manager for Asia at the ICIS in Singapore before his destruction at the age 59.
Brought into the world in Rawalpindi on November 27, 1964 to then Pakistan Times' main journalist Ikramul Haq and Ms A Rasheed, Ikram at first went to St Mary's Foundation and later went to the Islamabad School for Young men.
Following the strides of his dad, who had joined Sunrise paper in 1948, Ikram set out on his editorial vocation from the PPI news organization as a growing correspondent, after graduation from Gordon School in 1983.
After three years, Ikram was essential for the very first Islamabad Department of the recently sent off Lahore-based English language everyday, The Country and furthermore served a concise stretch as the capital journalist of The Outskirts Post.
By the turn of the hundred years, in any case, his very long term relationship with Thomson Reuters in Islamabad was demonstrating an extraordinary growth opportunity. This offered an uncommon chance to mix his advantage in financial detailing with regulatory ability as a senior journalist, dealing with the group of individual correspondents in the Islamabad Department.
This drove the way for his moving to Karachi to switch over to electronic media, first as chief projects in CNBC Pakistan and afterward in a comparable limit at the send off of the confidential Station, as their establishing programming chief in 2007.
After a change at the senior administration level prompted confounded publication needs in the next year, he left the channel and moved to Singapore as the news manager at ICIS — a news organization with a specific interest in the compound business.
Most youthful of three kin, Ikram is made due by spouse Samra Tahir, two adult kids.
A huge friend network and previous partners grieve the unexpected death of senior columnist. His body will be traveled to Islamabad for his burial service, time for which to be reported in the not so distant future.
