Muhammad Ziauddin (Urdu: محمد ضیاء الدین; 1938 – 29 November 2021) was a Pakistani journalist, economist and historian.
Narrates his journalistic honesty: Once I was a PRO to the Chief Justice of Pakistan, the Supreme Court was facing problems in getting coverage of its activities in the daily DAWN.
I was conveyed by the Registrar, Dr. Faqir Khokhar that CJP desires that PRO should visit DAWN offices at Zero Point & ask them to carry the new items of the Supreme Court.
He asked me to convey that "Zia Ud Din" never takes a cue from anybody & there would be no change in the policy for the Supreme Court.
I felt it at that moment but with time, I realized the golden lessons of our discussion & later, whenever we met both exchanged smiles in the backdrop of that meeting.
If you want to pay a tribute, be like Mr. Muhammad Zid Uddin, a torchbearer and an ideal journalist who would surely live in our hearts till we breathe.