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“It was a lovely place. All the romance of free journalism was there. Now it is being slowly dismantled,” a senior journalist said about Press Enclave also known as Mushtaq enclave and press colony of Srinagar.
Shamim A Shamim, Kashmir’s Editor, Orator, Politician
Shamim Ahmed Shamim was one of Kashmir’s prominent journalist editors who was later in politics and was elected to the state assembly and the parliament. He edited Aina newspaper that was known for his satire and critique of contemporary Kashmir and politics. This earned him more friends than foes.
With the guests of the then Prime Minister Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad in Srinagar, Shamim A Shamim, as the Cultural Officer of the Jammu and Kashmir government. Photo Courtesy: Qurrat Ul Ain
“Strange are the ways of politicians: only a few years ago the Sheikh and Shamim were thick as thieves. Today they are sworn enemies, ever since the Sheikh nominated his wife as a National Conference MP and Shamim joined the Janata Party,” Sunil Sethi wrote in The India Today in February 1979. “Shamim has since been assaulting the chief minister and his family on charges of gross corruption in vitriolic articles in his Urdu newspaper
Editor Ghulam Nabi Shaida Is No More
Waadi Ki Awaz. He was unwell for many years.
Ghulam Nabi Shaida
Srinagar: Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) condoles the demise of Ghulam Nabi Shaida senior editor and owner of Urdu daily Wadi ki Awaaz .
Shaida Sahab who was not keeping in good health for some time now breathed his last at his Srinagar residence during the night.
Senor journalist, Yousuf Jameel broke the news on social media. “Our senior colleague Ghulam Nabi Shaida Sahab (editor and owner of Urdu daily ‘
Wadi ki Awaaz‘) breathed his last at his Srinagar residence overnight,” Jameel said. “He would be, as per his will, laid to rest in the ancestral graveyard in Goripora village of Pulwama district in about couple of hours.”