Stop Press A Life in Journalism

by Aziz, Inam; Hasan, Khalid

• ISBN13: 9780195475760
• ISBN10: 0195475763
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

These are the memoirs of Inam Aziz, one of the stalwarts of journalism in Pakistan. A respected journalist, Inam Aziz rose to become the editor of the London edition of the Jang, Pakistan's most widely circulated national Urdu daily. During the dark days of Ziaul Haq in Pakistan, Inam Aziz'sMillat was the only newspaper that fought his dictatorship with courage and conviction. He lost both his money and his health in that lonely fight but he occupies a place of honour in Pakistan's history because of his crusade against military rule and for the establishment of representativegovernment in the country. It is ironic that one of the first acts of the Benazir Bhutto government in 1988 was to have Inam Aziz dismissed from his post as London correspondent of The Pakistan Times. This book provides a clear look into the growth of journalism in Pakistan, and the pressures andsetbacks suffered by journalists in their endeavour to report the truth. This account of his life in journalism was originally written in Urdu.

Author Biography

Khalid Hasan, writer, translator and journalist, is one of Pakistans best-known columnists and translators and his writings have appeared in various publications abroad. Khalid Hasan has written and edited 40 books, including several translations of the works of Saadat Hasan Manto and one collection of the stories of Ghulam Abbas. His own collections include Rearview Mirror, Scorecard, Give Us Back Our Onions, The Umpire Strikes Back, Private View, The Fourth Estate, Return of the Onion, and Question Time. Authors Details: Inam Aziz was a respected journalist who started out as an apprentice on an Urdu daily in Lahore. He worked in Peshawar on another paper and ultimately moved to Karachi where he rose to become news editor of Jang, Pakistans most widely circulated national Urdu daily. From print journalism, he went into broadcasting in the 1960s when he also worked for the BBC.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Speaking the Truth	p. xi
Who's Your Leader?	p. 1
Meeting the Quaid-i-Azam	p. 11
After Pakistan	p. 20
Purana Qila	p. 31
The Departure	p. 38
Working for the Army	p. 44
The Oldest Profession	p. 50
The Great Khan	p. 59
City of Lights	p. 70
Colonel Majid Malik	p. 82
Ayub's Martial Law	p. 91
BBC Days	p. 98
Flying Libel Writs	p. 107
Ziaul Haq	p. 117
Bhutto's Hangman	p. 133
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto	p. 139
Exile Politics in London	p. 150
Benazir Bhutto and I	p. 162
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