Kaleem Omar (1937 Lucknow

Lucknow

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 - 25 June 2009) was a Pakistan

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i journalist

Journalist

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, and an English language

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 poet

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Life

He attended Sherwood College

Sherwood College

Sherwood College is a co-educational residential school in Nainital, Uttarakhand, India, serving grades 3 - 12.-History:Sherwood was founded in July, 1867. This project was the brain-child of a Dr. Condon, Mr. H.S. Reid and others and under the patronage of the Rt. Rev. Robert Milman, DD, the...

, Naini Tal.
He was associated with the Jang Group's daily The News International

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, in Karachi

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 for the past many years. From 1983 to 1988, he wrote a column for The Star Weekend; beginning in 1989, he wrote for The News.

Though a well known poet, his journalistic job had dominated his poetry for the last several years.

Kaleem Omar died of heart failure.

External links

• "Selections from the press", Pakistan Institute of Development Economics