Hameed Nizami was an eminent journalist from Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. He was the founder of the Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt

Nawa-i-Waqt

Nawa-i-Waqt is an Urdu daily newspaper in Pakistan. Nawa-i-Waqt started its publishing on March 23, 1940 under the leadership of Hameed Nizami. The tradition is continued by his brother Majid Nizami. Nawa-i-Waqt is one of the largest circulating newspapers in the country...

, and played an important role in the Pakistan movement

Pakistan Movement

The Pakistan Movement or Tehrik-e-Pakistan refers to the historical movement to have an independent Muslim state named Pakistan created from the separation of the north-western region of the Indian subcontinent, partitioned within or outside the British Indian Empire. It had its origins in the...

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Life

He was born on October 3, 1915 at Sangla Hill

Sangla Hill

Sangla Hill is a tehsil located in Nankana Sahib District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.- Introduction :Sangla hill is a tehsil under district Nankana Sahib...

, a small railway junction not far from Lyallpur (now Faisalabad

Faisalabad

Faisalabad , formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has...

). He received his early education at here and did his Master's

Master's degree

A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...

 in English from the University of the Punjab

University of the Punjab

University of the Punjab , colloquially known as Punjab University, is located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The University of the Punjab is the oldest and biggest University of Pakistan. The University of the Punjab was formally established with the convening of the first meeting of its...

, Lahore

Lahore

Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

. He was a self-made man and his early life was a great struggle. While still a student at Islamia College, Lahore, he founded, along with others, the Punjab Muslim Students Federation and became its first elected President. Due to his dynamic role as a student leader, he came close to the Quaid-i-Azam and remained an ardent follower of Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a Muslim lawyer, politician, statesman and the founder of Pakistan. He is popularly and officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam and Baba-e-Qaum ....

 and the Muslim League; first as a student leader and later as a journalist. After attaining his degree, he choose journalism as his career and worked for a short time in the Press branch of the Punjab Government. After receiving training under a scheme sponsored by the Punjab Government, he also worked for some time on the staff of National Congress, an Urdu daily started by Dr. Satyapal, who represented the liberal wing of the Provincial Congress. Thereafter, he became the Manager of Lahore Office of the Orient News Agency and used the resources of the Orient News Agency for the projection of the League point of view and for helping the cause of Pakistan.

Nawa-i-Waqt

The year 1940 was something of a landmark in the life of Hameed Nizami when he launched his fortnightly paper called Nawa-i-Waqt from Lahore on March 23, 1940. He was elected President of the Punjab Muslim Student’s Federations for the second time in 1942. He was able to convert his fortnightly Nawa-i-Waqt into a Weekly, a newspaper with which his name will remain associated for ever. On December 15, 1942 the Nawa-i-Waqt became a Weekly. Later on, on July 19, 1944 it was converted into a daily paper. The daily Nawa-i-Waqt came out on July 22, 1944 with a prayer and a message of the Quaid-i-Azam. Hameed Nizami made Nawa-i-Waqt with all its limitations a powerful newspaper for the cause of Muslim League and the Pakistan Movement. He was a clear headed, methodical and devoted journalist. With these qualities he made himself a legend. He rendered a lofty service for the cause of Pakistan during the entire period of Pakistan Movement and, later, for the stability of Pakistan. He was a strong spokesman of democracy in the country. The first Martial Law of 1958 greatly hurt him which proved fatal for his life and he departed in February 1962.

See also

• Pakistan movement
  Pakistan Movement
  The Pakistan Movement or Tehrik-e-Pakistan refers to the historical movement to have an independent Muslim state named Pakistan created from the separation of the north-western region of the Indian subcontinent, partitioned within or outside the British Indian Empire. It had its origins in the...
  
  
• The Nation (Pakistani newspaper)
• Sangla Hill
  Sangla Hill
  Sangla Hill is a tehsil located in Nankana Sahib District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.- Introduction :Sangla hill is a tehsil under district Nankana Sahib...
  
  
• List of Pakistani journalists

External links

Biographical

• Hameed Nizami, Pioneers of Freedom
• Hamid Nizami, from Nazariapak

Other

• Nawa-i-Waqt, Nawa-i-Waqt group site