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MULTAN: Syed Fakhruddin Ballay, ex-director, Public Relations Punjab, who died of cardiac arrest here Wednesday night, was laid to rest at Bahawalpur today.

He was 72. He was survived by two widows and nine children.

Earlier, his funeral prayers was held at MCC ground here. A large number of journalists, friends and relatives attended the Namaz-e-Janaza.

Family sources said that he was a chronic heart patient and was admitted to Cardiology ward at Nishtar Hospital a few days back, where he breathed his last.

He was the author of about 100 books. He was a veteran journalist, who remained associated with this profession for about half a century, the family sources added.

TIMES Group Shocked

TIMES Group of Publications, which has brought three independent e-dailies, including 'Pakistan Times' has expressed deep shock and sorrow on the sad demise of Syed Fakhruddin Ballay.

The Chairman of the Group and Editor of 'Pakistan Times', Mumtaz Hamid Rao said Friday that ‘the death of Ballay is a personal tragedy for me, as he was a friend, one can always feel proud of.’

Transmitting a condolence message to the bereaved family, Rao said ‘the story of Syed Fakhruddin Ballay's voyage to eternity has come as a severe shock to me as well as all other close friends in Pakistan who will never forget the memoirs, Ballay has left behind.’

‘Apart from his superb and marvelous services as a unique PR personality in diverse capacities, his pragmatic analysis of crucial issues, posing perils to the world via his contributions to the national press would be indexed as beacon light for the new generation explicitly for those who have zest for leaning and accessibility towards current affairs,’ Rao, ex-Director of News & Current Affairs, Pakistan TV said.

While praying that ‘may Allah Almighty bless the departed soul in eternal peace’, he offered prayers for bereaved family to bear this great loss with courage and fortitude.

‘The entire members of the TIMES Group — including the Managing Editor, Raza Mumtaz Rao — join me in conveying this condolence message on this tragedy’, he said with a wish ‘Alas I could have a last gaze of Syed Fakhruddin Ballay's face —who has left behind hundreds of his admirers by breathing his last thousands of miles away from us.’