Jawed Iqbal (born

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.Up front: The chemistry of caricatures - Cartoonist Jawed Iqbal on Dawn (newspaper)
Updated 21 September 2014, Retrieved 11 September 2017

Early life and career

Jawed Iqbal was born at

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. He has professional experience of 38 years. Jawed Iqbal is associated with

Daily Jang The ''Daily Jang'' ( ur, ) is an Urdu newspaper headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. It is the oldest newspaper of Pakistan in continuous publication since its foundation in 1939, first published during World War II, hence the name (Jang) translat ...

, the Urdu newspaper with the largest circulation within Pakistan and overseas.Cartoonists tread fine line in Pakistan
The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 10 January 2015, Retrieved 11 September 2017 Jawed's approach is modern and cartoons fresh which is very hard to maintain for a cartoonist over three decades. Pakistan has very strict blasphemy laws and also a culture of political violence. Cartoonists in Pakistan have to be careful when making their cartoons. Still Pakistani cartoonists find ways to make fun of people in power and also the religious extremists. Jawed Iqbal says he does not make fun of religion and sex. Instead, his focus is on common man and his everyday problems. His cartoons are about rolling power outages, gas shortages and current political personalities. Jawed Iqbal also says that a cartoon should leave an instant impact on the viewer. He adds that a cartoonist has to sugarcoat a bitter fact and present it in a funny way to the public. Without offending people or humiliating them, a good cartoonist entertains and informs the public. This was the consensus view of a panel of Pakistani cartoonists in 2015 who met at

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, Pakistan.Sugarcoating bitter facts
Dawn (newspaper), Published 13 December 2015, Retrieved 11 September 2017

Writings

He is the author of eight books of which two were very popular travelogues: ''Modern Ibn-e-Batuta'' and ''Modern Columbus''.

Awards and recognition

Pride of Performance The Pride of Performance ( ur, ), officially known as Presidential Pride of Performance, is an award bestowed by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to recognize people with "notable achievements in the field of art, science, literature, sports, an ...

award by the

President of Pakistan The president of Pakistan ( ur, , translit=s̤adr-i Pākiṣṭān), officially the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is the ceremonial head of state of Pakistan and the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces.List of Pakistani journalists This is a list of Pakistani journalists from print and electronic media. A * Amin Hafeez * Ansar Abbasi *Ayaz Amir * Abdul Hameed Chapra * Asma Chaudhry *Ardeshir Cowasjee *Altaf Husain *Arshad Sharif * Aasma Sherazi * Abid Qaiyum Suleri * ...

References

External links

Cartoonist Jawed Iqbal's interview on YouTube
Living people People from Sialkot Pakistani cartoonists Pakistani male journalists Pakistani columnists Punjabi people Recipients of the Pride of Performance Year of birth missing (living people) {{cartoonist-stub