Veteran Journalist Khalid Ali Passes away in Northern Virginia

Washington: Khalid Ali, a veteran journalist and a senior information official, died in Northern Virginia. He was 101.

His funeral was held on Tuesday at Adams Center, Virginia, his neighborhood mosque.

A graduate from Aligarh Muslim University, Khalid Ali joined  Dawn, Delhi as a reporter in 1945.

After a brief stint in  Dawn, Karachi, after Partition, he joined the press information department of the government of Pakistan and retired as director general of external publicity.

He also served as a press counsellor at Pakistan UN Mission in New York during 1972-74.

After retirement, he settled in Northern Virginia. He and a former  PTV journalist Zubair Ali were the grandsons of the legendary freedom fighters Maulana Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali. He also wrote a book about the two freedom fighters, throwing light on the Khilafat movement from the family perspective.

Khalid Ali celebrated his 101st birthday in September 2022. He was the last surviving journalist who served  Dawn Delhi before the birth of Pakistan. The family arranged Qul for him at Adams Center, 46903 Sugarland Rd, Sterling, VA, on Nov 30.