Senior journalist Hasan Shahriar passes away

Prominent journalist and former president of Jatiya Press Club Hasan Shahriar died at a private hospital in Dhaka this morning.

He breathed his last at the ICU of the hospital around 11:45am, Farida Yasmin, president of Jatiya Press Club, said.

Shahriar was admitted to the hospital on Thursday with Covid-19 symptoms.

UNB reports, Shahriar retired from the daily Ittefaq as its executive editor in 2008 after serving the newspaper for a long time.

He was the first editor of the Daily Sun and chief editor of Chattogram-based daily People's View.

Shahriar also worked as Bangladesh correspondent of international news magazine Newsweek, Khaleej Times, India's daily Deccan Herald, The Indian Express and The Asian Age, Pakistan's Morning News, Dawn and Evening Star.

He was also the International President Emeritus of the Toronto-based Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA).

Shahriar was elected president of the Jatiya Press Club management committee for 1993-94 tenure.