Srinagar, Feb 01 (KNS): PDP vice president  and fomer minister Abdul Rehman Veeri has expressed grief and shock over the demise of veteran journalist and Chief Editor of daily Srinagar News Mehraj ud Din Wani. 

As per family, Wani breathed his last at Chest Disease hospital today after brief illness. 

Veeri said that the death of Mehraj ud din is a big loss to media fraternity and society in general for his immense contribution to Urdu journalism. 

He said Wani was a fair journalist and his newspaper was a mirror for Jammu and Kashmir. 

Veeri expressed sympathies with the bereaved family and prayed for peace of the departed Wani. (KNS)