pitafi
02-12-2007, 08:10 PM
Most unfortunate is the nation whose young and bright ones die. Pakistan today is losing its brightest souls at a breakneck speed. When you try to use word 'death' for someone you really adored your tongue twists and refuses to utter the word. Today, one of the brightest has left us mourning. It is difficult to express this abysmal loss in words.
I met late Ednan Shahid very late and today I can only wish that I could have enjoyed his company more. In this world of chaos and ignorance I have seldom found people that are so much committed to bringing about change. My editor Ednan who passed away due to heart failure early Saturday morning at the tender of 37 was a great soul. He was striving for change and was committed to conscientious journalism.
This country does not know what it has lost. Believe me nobody has any idea what has been lost. We, his colleagues and friends, can only pray that his family knows that while this humunguous lacuna left cannot be filled, his legacy will always remain with them as their strength and to warm their hearts.
On December 7, 2006 I had written in my column titled 'Jonathan and the pygmies', " have known many owner-editors in my limited career. Of some, I have this complaint that they behave either in highly unprofessional way as if you are their slave or else they display a characteristic lack of imagination in advising you to write as per their dictates. I will make no bones about the fact that prior to my coming in contact with this news group, I had heard many a nonsensical tale. Yet my first meeting with the editor of this paper (Ednan Shahid), dismissed them in one go. Here I found things being done in a highly professional way. I found breathing space that I needed and very enjoyable company with unfathomable respect." I had called him Jonathan after Richard Bach's charactern Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. And there cannot be any better description of his. I sign off with the salute, Oh captain my captain. If you have seen Robin William starrer movie Dead Poet's Society you'll know I cannot say anything better.
This post on my weblog can be accessed at the link http://www.pitafi.com/weblog/index.php?itemid=39 . If you chose to post your sentiments on his sad demise I'll be encouraged and I'll use them in my next column paying him my last regards.
I met late Ednan Shahid very late and today I can only wish that I could have enjoyed his company more. In this world of chaos and ignorance I have seldom found people that are so much committed to bringing about change. My editor Ednan who passed away due to heart failure early Saturday morning at the tender of 37 was a great soul. He was striving for change and was committed to conscientious journalism.
This country does not know what it has lost. Believe me nobody has any idea what has been lost. We, his colleagues and friends, can only pray that his family knows that while this humunguous lacuna left cannot be filled, his legacy will always remain with them as their strength and to warm their hearts.
On December 7, 2006 I had written in my column titled 'Jonathan and the pygmies', " have known many owner-editors in my limited career. Of some, I have this complaint that they behave either in highly unprofessional way as if you are their slave or else they display a characteristic lack of imagination in advising you to write as per their dictates. I will make no bones about the fact that prior to my coming in contact with this news group, I had heard many a nonsensical tale. Yet my first meeting with the editor of this paper (Ednan Shahid), dismissed them in one go. Here I found things being done in a highly professional way. I found breathing space that I needed and very enjoyable company with unfathomable respect." I had called him Jonathan after Richard Bach's charactern Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. And there cannot be any better description of his. I sign off with the salute, Oh captain my captain. If you have seen Robin William starrer movie Dead Poet's Society you'll know I cannot say anything better.
This post on my weblog can be accessed at the link http://www.pitafi.com/weblog/index.php?itemid=39 . If you chose to post your sentiments on his sad demise I'll be encouraged and I'll use them in my next column paying him my last regards.