New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia Representatives Chancellor Professor Najma Akhtar on Saturday met with a family member Prize Pulitzer who won a photo of Indian journalist and Alumni of the Danish Siddiqui University who was killed in Afghanistan.
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He met Danish’s father, retiring Professor JMI Akhtar Siddiqui, and other family members at their residence in Jamia Nagar.
Akhtar was accompanied by registrants and other historical senior officials.
“Denmark works vigorously to bring up the truth to show it to the world and always raise his voice against the wrong.
Denmark’s death is a loss not only to the family and brotherhood of Jamia but throughout the country,” said a statement quoting akhtar.
In addition to holding a meeting on the campus on Tuesday, the University will also arrange Danish work exhibitions immediately for students to take inspiration from him.
Siddiqui graduated with a degree in the economic field of JMI.
He also has a degree in mass communication from AJK MCRC in Jamia 2007.
He worked for the Reuters news agency and was killed on Friday in Afghanistan while covering a fierce battle between Afghan forces and Taliban militants near the border with Pakistan in Kandahar Province.
In 2018, Siddiqui won prizes prestigious Pulitzer in feature photography.
He won it with a colleague and five others because their work documents the violence faced by the Myanmar Minority Rohingya community.
Siddiqui graduated with a degree in economics from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.
He has a degree in mass communication from the AJK mass communication research center in Jamia in 2007.