Kaleem Omar (KO) (1937 – 25 June 2009) was a Pakistani journalist, and an English language poet.

Life

Born in

Lucknow Lucknow () is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and the largest city of the List of state and union territory capitals in India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the epon ...

, Omar attended

Sherwood College Sherwood College is a co-educational residential school in Nainital, Uttrakhand , India. It was established in 1869 and is affiliated to CISCE and IGCSE. The school has been described in ''The Economic Times'' as one of a group of "old, rich ...

Naini Tal Nainital (Kumaoni language, Kumaoni: ''Naintāl''; ) is a town and headquarters of Nainital district of Kumaon division, Uttarakhand, India. It is the judicial capital of Uttarakhand, the Uttarakhand High Court, High Court of the state being ...

. He was associated with the

Jang Group Jang Media Group (), also known as Geo Group, is a Pakistani media conglomerate and a subsidiary of Dubai-based company Independent Media Corporation. It has headquarters in Printing House, Karachi. It is the publisher of the Urdu language new ...

's daily ''

The News International ''The News International'', published in broadsheet size, is one of the largest English language newspapers in Pakistan. It is published daily from Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi/ Islamabad. An overseas edition is published from London th ...

'', in

Karachi Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...

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''. His work is included in the anthologies ''Pieces of eight'', ''Wordfall'' and ''A Dragonfly in the Sun''. Kaleem Omar died of

heart failure Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to Cardiac cycle, fill with and pump blood. Although symptoms vary based on which side of the heart is affected, HF ...

on 28 June 2009.Journalist, poet Kaleem Omar dead
Dawn.com. Retrieved on 26 June 2009.

References

External links

"Selections from the press"
''Pakistan Institute of Development Economics'' * * 2009 deaths 1937 births English-language poets from Pakistan 20th-century Pakistani poets {{pakistan-poet-stub