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Tributes to Abdul Rashid Shah…

From L to R: Late Ghulam Nabi Khayal, Moarfat Qadri, Manzoor Anjum, Bashir Manzar, Late Abdul Rashid Shah and Bashir Ahmad Bashir (Tulip Garden).

Abdul Rashid Shah, founder editor of Urdu Daily, Nida-e-Mashriq left this mortal world on 7th of March, 2026 (Saturday) after a prolonged pulmonary ailment. My association with him dates back to 1992 when he, after quitting his job with Jammu and Kashmir Department of Information, launched his own newspaper. It was being published from a rented building in Maisuma locality of Srinagar.

I was yet to formally join the profession but my columns were getting published in several local newspapers. There were several established Urdu newspapers and I was wondering how Rashid Sahab would create some space for his venture. I used to visit his office and nag him with such questions and taking a drag and blowing the smoke, he would tell, Dekha Jaye Ga (let’s see).

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Later he shifted his office to Press Colony, Pratap Park, where I was a frequent visitor as I was staying at 6-Pratap Park in Greater Kashmir office, that was yet to be launched as Daily. We would smoke, have cups of tea and discuss media, politics, economy, society endlessly.

For some people in the fraternity, Rashid Sahab was egoistic and arrogant. No, he wasn’t, he was just blunt in his views, in his perceptions and in his approach. He had a creative mind and a flair for writing. His editorials and a regular column “Namak Paaray” were a treat to eyes and intellect and his editing skills were top notch given his experience in Information Department.

So, it was no surprise that in a brief........

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