LARKANA: A veteran journalist Mazhar Surhio expired here on Sunday. He was 76.
After offering his funeral prayers, the late journalist was laid to rest at the ancestral graveyard. A large number of local journalists, relatives and citizens attended his final rites and funeral prayers.
PPP Sindh President Nisar Khuhro offered condolences with the bereaved family and said in a statement that Mazhar Surhio gave several years of his life to journalism and his journalistic journey will be remembered.
Surhio worked for Sindhi daily Hilal-e-Pakistan throughout his life and was awarded the presidential award for writing various columns in the newspaper. He has left behind four sons Aftab Surhio, Altaf Surhio and Irfan Surhio and daughters.