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Ahmad Ali Khan; Journalist; Born: 1 July, 1924 at Bhopal (MP), India; 0; Chief Editor, Dawn (English), Karachi and Lahore, editor, The Pakistan Times, Lahore (1959-1962), founder editor, Rawalpindi edition of the Pakistan Times (1961), President, Punjab Union of Journalists 1951, President, Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors; Address: (R) – No. 1, F-40/7, Kahkashan, Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan .
Dawn Pakistan : KARACHI, March 13: Mr Ahmad Ali Khan’ death here on Tuesday removes from the scene one of the giants of Pakistan’s English journalism. With Dawn, whose editor he was for 28 years, his association began before partition in Delhi in 1946 with Mr Altaf Husain as editor, and ended in Karachi in 2004. In between he served as editor of The Pakistan Times, but returned to Dawn in 1962. Thus on the whole he was with Dawn for 42 years, 28 of them as editor, longer than any other editor. His journalistic career spanned over five decades, beginning in 1945 with Tarjuman, published in Bhopal, his hometown,
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