Hasan Abidi was a Pakistani journalist, writer, political activist and an Urdu language poet.
11 Facts About Hasan Abidi
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Hasan Abidi was born on 7 July 1929 in Zafarabad, Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh, and educated in Azamgarh and Allahabad and after the partition of India in 1947, he moved to Pakistan and settled in Karachi in 1948 and associated himself with journalism and writing.
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Hasan Abidi became president of the Karachi Press Club and held office in both the Karachi Union of Journalist and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists.
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Hasan Abidi was an active member of the Irtiqa forum.
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Hasan Abidi joined Lail-o-Nahar magazine in 1957 which was then edited by Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Sibte Hassan.
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Later, Hasan Abidi moved to Karachi to work for the Akhbar-e-Khwateen magazine and soon became its editor before moving on to work for Dawn newspaper.
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Hasan Abidi had translated fellow journalist Eqbal Ahmed's essays into Urdu and written stories and poems for children.
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Hasan Abidi was more in control of his craft in the traditional confines of the ghazal but chose another style and content for his nazms.
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Hasan Abidi died of a heart attack on 6 September 2005 in Karachi at age 76.
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Hasan Abidi had handed in his latest column the previous evening at his workplace.
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Hasan Abidi once suffered heart trouble in the 1970s, but had recovered well and continued his professional career with vigor until the last week of his life.