Al Jazeera.net co-founder and cartoonist Shujaat Ali dies aged 54

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Shujaat Ali, cartoonist and founding member of Al Jazeera’s online teams, has died at the age of 54. A pioneer of digital cartoons, Ali was credited with creating the first animated caricatures online. He also worked at a number of media outlets in his native Pakistan and abroad, receiving several awards for his work. He died last week after suffering a heart attack as he returned home from work. He was buried in Qasimabad in Rawalpindi, where his parents are also buried. Ali was Pakistan’s first court artist, documenting the course of a number of well-known cases using his pencil and skills. He had recently been working with the Pakistan Air Force, his son-in-law, Waqar Saeed, told the Dawn newspaper.