Riaz Batalvi (1937 – 15 January 2003) was a senior

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and a dramatist.Profile of Riaz Batalvi on Journalism Pakistan website
Retrieved 23 July 2019Riaz Batalvi passe away
Pakistan Press Foundation website, Published 16 January 2003, Retrieved 23 July 2019

Early life and career

Riazul Hasan was born in February 1937 in

Batala Batala is the eighth largest city in the state of Punjab, India in terms of population after Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala, Bathinda, Mohali and Hoshiarpur. Batala ranks as the second-oldest city after Bathinda. It is a municipal cor ...

Gurdaspur District Gurdaspur district is a district in the Majha region of the state of Punjab, India. Gurdaspur is the district headquarters. It internationally borders Narowal District of Pakistani Punjab, and the districts of Amritsar, Pathankot, Kapurthala ...

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. His family migrated to Pakistan after the

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in 1947. First, he started working for ''Daily Kohistan'' newspaper which was edited by the veteran journalist and novelist

Naseem Hijazi Sharif Hussain (Urdu: ), who used the pseudonym Nasīm Hijāzī (Urdu: , commonly transliterated as Naseem Hijazi or Nasim Hijazi) (19 May 1914 – 2 March 1996), was an Urdu novelist. Life and career Hussain was born in an Arain family in th ...

. Then he switched over to Daily Mashriq newspaper, when it was launched in 1963 and later became its editor.

As a playwright

Riaz Batalvi wrote a short story called ''Dubai Chalo'' which was well received by the public and was later turned into a highly popular movie by the same name - ''Dubai Chalo'' (1979). He also wrote a popular TV drama ''Aik Haqeeqat Aik Fasana'' for the Pakistani television.Riaz Batalvi's TV drama on YouTube
Uploaded 7 July 2018, Retrieved 23 July 2019

Awards and recognition

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

Award by the

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in 1986

Death

Riaz Batalvi died on 15 January 2003 at age 65 in

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, Pakistan.

References

External links

Riaz Batalvi on IMDb website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Batalvi, Riaz Pakistani male journalists Writers from Lahore Pakistani dramatists and playwrights People from Gurdaspur district Journalists from Lahore Recipients of the Pride of Performance 1937 births 2003 deaths