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Renowned columnist Ardeshir Cowasjee passes away at 86KARACHI: Renowned columnist Ardeshir Cowasjee has passed away after prolonged ailment at the age of 86 in Karachi, Geo News reported.
Cowasjee was born in 1926 in Karachi and hailed from the well-known Parsi family. He was a businessman in merchant shipping. Ardeshir attended the Bai Virbaiji Soparivala Parsi High School and graduated from DJ Science College.
He was appointed by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Managing Director of Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) in 1973
Cowasjee started writing letters to the editor of a leading English mewspaper, which led him to become a permanent columnist.
His hard-hitting and well-researched columns exposed corruption, nepotism and incompetence in different local, provincial and national governments for the last twenty years.
Courtesy www.geo.tv