In 1995, Niazi returned his Pride of Performance award to the government, in response to its closure of six newspapers.
[1][2] Zamir Niazi began as a journalist in 1954 by joining Dawn newspaper where he also worked as a sub-editor for eight years.
He then joined another Pakistani newspaper, Daily News as its chief sub-editor and lead writer in 1962.
[2][4][5] On 29 June 2004, an event was arranged at the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad to pay tributes to the journalist Zamir Niazi by noted scholars and intellectuals of Pakistan including Iftikhar Arif and Tariq Rahman.
It was mentioned by speakers at this event that Zamir Niazi was often called as 'Zameer' (the conscience) of Pakistani Press.