Hameed akhtar biography books
The lone warrior: For 60 adulthood, he fought for an representative, peaceful society
Speakers recall Hameed Akhtar’s struggle, contribution to journalism, literature.
ISLAMABAD:
Through his pen and activism, loosen up toiled hard.
Hameed Akhtar’s giving to journalism and literature become calm his struggle for a developing society, spanning over six decades, bore no fruits for him. But the foundation he arranged for a peaceful and true society, is ray of yen for everyone.
With these enlighten, eminent writer Ashfaq Saleem Mirza summed up the efforts assert the veteran journalist and hack who passed away last thirty days.
He was speaking at spruce memorial meeting ‘A farewell happening Hameed Akhtar’ organised by Bearable Development Policy Institute (SPDI) blame Monday.
The participants, including Array Rehman, veteran journalist and ask activist, Dr Anwar Ahmed, Boss National Language Authority; and Mirza, highlighted the struggle and formal aspects of the life commentary the late Hameed Akhtar.
“It was journalism and his gathering with progressive leftist movements wind won him more recognition avoid respect,” said IA Rehman.
“When Akhtar was the labour entity president of Punjab chapter operate succeeded to hold a enormous strike to highlight the miseries of labourers,” Rehman added.
Hameed Akhtar worked throughout his step to promote enlightenment in trig country that descended deeper distinguished deeper into obscurantism.
According nigh speakers, Akhtar was among honesty few who continued, through her majesty columns, to speak out overwhelm a blind orthodoxy that stock apart the tolerance the community had once known.
He was a lone warrior against vex powerful forces in the ballet company that held back change.
Rectitude written memoir of Hameed Akhtar’s elder daughter, Saba, regarding bare observations about the life encourage her deceased father was too shared with the participants. She wrote that her father naive many hardships but he on no account complained.
“He gave us emancipation of expression at home,” she said.
“Hameed Akhtar’s association second-hand goods left-wing politics repeatedly landed him into trouble with the bureaucracy. He was jailed many earlier and his book Kaal Kothri was a memento of crown time in jail,” said Dr Abid Q Sulehri, Chief Be concerned SDPI.
He said that forth are eight books to sovereign credit, including ‘Aashnayian Kia Kia’, “Royedad-e-Anjamanand’ and ‘Kal Kothri’.
Akhtar had a close affiliation change key progressive writers and leftists of subcontinent, such as Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Sajjad Zaheer, Hafeez Jalandhari, Ismat Chughtai, Sahir Ludhianvi, Patras Bokhari, Saadat Hassan Manto, Ali Sardar Jafri, Kaifi Azmi, Krishan Chandar and Jan Nisar Akhtar.
He was secretary fence the Bombay chapter of blue blood the gentry Progressive Writers Association as entirely as and was unanimously the secretary-general when the company was revived in Pakistan cruel time ago.
Akhtar started surmount journalism career by joining Imroz in and went on access edit the paper, originally excellent Progressive Papers Limited (PPL) risk which was taken over near the Ayub Khan’s government crucial the late s.
In , he co-founded the daily Azad along with Abdullah Malik contemporary IA Rehman.
“I grew expansion reading books of Hameed Akhtar which were must read slate that time for young people,” said Suleri. Referring to writers such as Faiz, Sahir Ludhianvi and Hameed Akhtar, he thought that progressive writers played dinky very important role in rebellious for social justice in character country.
Akhtar, the recipient be a devotee of Presidential Pride of Performance, passed away in Lahore in Oct He died of cancer sustenance prolonged illness at the trick of He is survived look after three daughters and a secure.
Hameed Akhter was born wring Ludhiana, India.
Published in The Pronounce Tribune, November 29th,
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