(Pakistan News & Features Services)
Masood Sattar Khan, a former bureau chief of the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) in Karachi, who died in a road accident a day earlier, was laid to rest at the Askari-IV Graveyard on November 20.
His Namaz-e-Janaza was offered at Jamia Masjid Ahsan-ul-Uloom, housed in Block 2 of Gulshan-e-Iqbal. The funeral prayers as well as the burial were largely attended by the APP staffers, his former colleagues, friends and relatives.
During his long journalistic career, Masood Sattar was also posted in Beijing, China, as the APP correspondent. Post-retirement, he continued writing and reporting and he was one of the regular contributors to the Pakistan News & Features Services (PNFS).
According to the family sources, he met with a fatal road accident near Awami Markaz on Shahrah-e-Faisal on the morning of November 19 and he could not recover from the serious head injuries.
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