KARACHI – Alauddin Ghori, who worked and played for PWD hockey team before starting his own Urdu sports monthly publication and worked as sports reporter of a Karachi-based Urdu newspaper, passed away at the age of 72 here on Wednesday late evening after brief illness.
He brought out the sports magazine for over two decades without a break before discontinuing it.
Later, he joined the Urdu newspaper with whom he remained associated till his death. Alauddin Ghori did his masters in Geography from Karachi University in mid 60s.
He has left behind a widow and two sons to mourn his death along with a huge number of his close friends.
He was the only Pakistani sports journalist who covered first four SAF Games and once headed the SAF Games Sports Journalists Association. He was an expert on school, college and university sports.
He was buried on Thursday evening at a local graveyard. A large number of his friends, sportsmen and journalists attended his funeral prayers.
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