Life

Aleem was born in 1939 in

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. His father moved to

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following Partition. Aleem was from a

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Butt family and was an

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. He received an MA in Urdu from the University of Karachi 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 Pakistan Television Corporation 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

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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 Fazl-e-Omar Hospital 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Zindagi Hey Hamari'', (Selected Poems) *''Men Khhuli Huwi Ik Sachai'', (Collected Prose) *''Chiragh Jaltey Hen: The Unpublished Poetry of Obaidullah Aleem'', (Facsimile edition edited by Rehan Qayoom, 2014)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