IQBAL ATHAS – Standing tall through it all View(s):As the Sunday Times bids goodbye to our stalwart Consultant Editor/Defence Correspondent/Political Editor, we look back on an exceptional career of investigative reporting, war reporting, astute political commentary and mentoring a generation of journalists. Iqbal Athas, who dominated these Op-Ed pages for 30 years, first as a Defence Correspondent and later as Political Editor of the Sunday Times, is no more. These incidents were symptomatic of the widespread criminal impunity in Sri Lanka at the time. At home, he was the first recipient of the coveted Journalist of the Year Award presented by The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka was handing over the Movement’s chair to Cuba.

Source: Sunday Times January 18, 2026 02:30 UTC