Obaidullah Aleem ( ur, , 12 June 1939 – 18 May 2003) was a Pakistani poet of

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. His father moved to

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following Partition. Aleem was from a

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and was an Ahmadi. He received an MA in Urdu from the

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and began working as a radio and television producer until 1967. In 1974, his first book of poetry ''Chand Chehra Sitara Ankhhen'' was published. He was senior producer at Karachi station

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until he was forced to resign in 1978 following an edict against him. His book of poetry received the highest award in literature in

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, the Adamji Prize. He wrote an article, , in memory of Khalifatul Masih III in 1982. His second collection of poetry was published in 1986. In March 1998 he suffered a severe

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and was treated in

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for a few days. He returned to his residence at Nazimabad no 4, in

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. He died from heart failure, following another heart attack on 18 May 1998.

Bibliography

*''Chand chehra sitara ankhhen'', (1974) *''Viran saray ka diya'', (1986) *''Yei Zindagi Hey Hamari'', (Selected Poems) *''Men Khhuli Huwi Ik Sachai'', (Collected Prose) *''Chiragh Jaltey Hen: The Unpublished Poetry of Obaidullah Aleem'', (Facsimile edition edited by Rehan Qayoom, 2014)

References

External links

Obaidullah Aleem - Aleem's Ghazals (in videos) sung by famous singersObaidullah Aleem - Aleem's Ghazals in Aleem's own videos & his own voiceObaidullah Aleem - Thoughts of a Poet
* Pakistani people of Kashmiri descent People from Bhopal Urdu-language poets from Pakistan 1939 births Poets from Karachi 1998 deaths 20th-century Pakistani poets {{Pakistan-poet-stub