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Stop Press Aziz

Stop Press By Aziz

Stop Press by Aziz


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Summary

These are the memoirs of Inam Aziz, a respected journalist, who rose to become the editor of Jang, Pakistan's most widely circulated Urdu daily. He is also remembered for his editorship of the Urdu daily Millat during the time of Pakistan's former ruler General Ziaul Haq when he fought a lonely battle for representative government in the country against the dictatorial policies of the General.

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Stop Press: A Life in Journalism by Aziz

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's Millat 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 representative government 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 and setbacks suffered by journalists in their endeavour to report the truth. This account of his life in journalism was originally written in Urdu.

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...a good study of the history of journalism and the brutal era of dictatorship in which brave journalists like Inan Aziz got through and paved the way for true journalism. Sajjad Mohammad, The Islamic Quarterly Vol. 56 No. 4 As a historical document it will be useful to scholars of journalism history, particularly of Pakistan, but also those interested more broadly in the lived experience, under different conditions, of those in the profession. Journalism History

About Aziz

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 - BY KHALID HASAN ; SPEAKING THE TRUTH - BY INAM AZIZ ; 1. Who is Your Leader? ; 2. Meeting the Quaid-i-Azam ; 3. After Pakistan ; 4. Purana Qila ; 5. The Departure ; 6. Working for the Army ; 7. The Oldest Profession ; 8. The Great Khan ; 9. City of Lights ; 10. Colonel Majid Malik ; 11. Ayub's Martial Law ; 12. BBC Days ; 13. Flying Libel Writs ; 14. Ziaul Haq ; 15. Bhutto's Hangman ; 16. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ; 17. Exile Politics in London ; 18. Benazir Bhutto and I ; INDEX

Additional information

GOR012520239
9780195475760
0195475763
Stop Press: A Life in Journalism by Aziz
Used - Good
Hardback
OUP Pakistan
20080327
190
N/A
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