Coded Minds comes forward to help journalists in need.

PESHAWAR -- Coded Minds Pakistan (CMP) has announced that it will provide education to the children of a former journalist who is now working as a blue collar worker.

It is the first ever international company which has come forward to support the media-persons braving through the industrial crisis in the country.

According to the official announcement, Dr Farook Rasheed A.

Farooki, father of the Coded Minds' founder Omar Farooqui, has taken the responsibility to provide funds for the education of six daughters of journalist Shakirullah, who is living in miserable conditions since losing his job two years ago to the crisis in the media industry in Pakistan.

On December 5, the Independent Urdu had published a feature story on Shakirullah, a journalist for the past 29 years in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), in which he was seen working as a daily wage laborer to meet both ends.

He had told the interviewer that his children were also expelled from the school over nonpayment of fees.

After watching the story, Dr Farooki, a Saudi national, who is a known medical practitioner in the Kingdom, asked his son Farooqui to make contact with the journalist and offer to bear the educational expenses of his children.

On the instructions of Farooqui, the (CMP) extended the offer to Shakirullah which he happily accepted.

'I can't tell you how happy I am.

I am deeply grateful to Dr Farooki for lending me a helping hand in this moment of need.

Nothing is dearest to a father than seeing his children happy. This is a gift for the lifetime.

Thanks again,' he said in an emotional tone.

His eldest daughter, Rahila Shah, who is 18 years old, brimmed with excitement when she learned of resuming the education with the Hope Academy.

'This is great, let me tell this to all my friends' she told her father.

Farooqui said that his father was moved by the story.

'I could see tears in the...