LAHORE: Bank of Punjab CEO and President Zafar Masud called his book, Seat 1C: A Survivor’s Tale of Hope, Resilience of Renewal, a labour of love as it is something that he really wanted to do and if he were doing a PhD, he would have come up with simila ...
Holding a copy of Seat 1C: A Survivor’s Tale of Hope, Resilience and Renewal in my hands gave me goosebumps and flashbacks. It is now five years since I had rushed, along with the rest of the city’s media, to Karachi’s Model Colony, the site of the crash of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK 8303, to report on the tragedy. That was the afternoon of May 22, 2020.
STILL strapped to his plane seat, unconscious and falling from a crashing Airbus 320, he rammed into the rooftop of a three-floor building before landing on the bonnet of a Suzuki Cultus. Ninety-seven out of the 99 people on board lost their lives. Zafar ...
Liaquat Abbasi, Bureau Chief of KTN News and Kawish Media House, recently attended the launch ceremony of renowned author Zafar Masud’s latest book, “Seat 1C.” Abbasi, a seasoned journalist, provided comprehensive coverage of the event for Kawish Dunya, a leading Sindhi print magazine.
Seat 1C Launch
IPRI – Islamabad Policy Research Institute
Tuesday May, 6, 2025 at 1100 hours
Jinnah Hall, IPRI Office 505,
Evecuee Trust Complex, Islamabad
In Seat 1C: A Survivor’s Tale of Hope, Resilience and Renewal, Zafar Masud recounts his miraculous survival in the 2020 crash of PIA Flight 8303—one of Pakistan’s deadliest air disasters, claiming 97 lives. But instead of focusing on personal trauma or s ...
"People are genuinely good. We don’t give them much leeway and we try to judge them according to ourselves. We should give people the margin, leeway, and the opportunity to better themselves and walk the right path," says Zafar Masud, CEO of The ...
Zafar Masud discusses survival, healing, and empathy through his memoir “Seat 1C” at an inspiring Habib University book talk in Karachi.
Seat 1C is more than a memoir of survival — it is a reflection on resilience, responsibility, and the quiet strength to find meaning after unimaginable loss.Habib University had the honor of hosting the launch of this remarkable book by Zafar Masud, ...
