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Ten years ago when we launched Rekhta (voice of Urdu poetry), it was because of my ishq for Urdu. It started as a sort of a hobby project and I could never envision that it would grow into something this big. But right from the start, the amount of popularity, readership and feedback that we got was
It was an eventful week which started on a competitive note for the journalist community. On March 14, 1971 Hasan Abidi and Abdul Hameed Chhapra were elected as president and general secretary, respectively, of the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) for the year 1971-72. Out of the 191 KUJ members at the time, 145 cast their vote. Mr Abidi bagged 95 votes while his opponent Hazoor Ahmed Shah secured 47. Mr Chhapra got 114 votes and his rival, A.T. Nizami, was able to get 28. Zafar Rizvi (107) and Ashfaq Bukhari (86) were elected senior and junior vice-president of the union while Ashraf Shad ...
For those interested in Pakistani politics and journalism, Pakistan Mein Sahafat Ki Mutabadil Tareekh [An Alternative History of Pakistani Journalism] is not an ordinary book. It has been produced by the Society for Alternative Media and Research (SAMAR) led by Mazhar Arif, a renowned advocate for public interest media; and authored by Dr Tauseef Ahmed Khan, an equally prominent academic and journalism educationist. The book is not a reproduction of facts alone, but goes beyond the remit of the usual chronological compilations, by juxtaposing Pakistan’s political and socio-economic contexts...