ZIM's reference at SAFMA
In order to understand ZIM,
it`s important to understand Lahore
Masood Ullah Khan
Once he was out of there and joined Punjab Punch, he somewhat broke shackles. He showed his class as a writer and editor in Punjab Punch.
As it is, the editorial policy of Punjab Punch meant that there was no need to be extra careful with the content. This gave ZIM more of a push when being open as a journalist. He said everything in his own peculiar and bold style.
Mr Khan recalled how they both thought of dramatic headlines together, and how committed he (ZIM) was to not only his work but to people too.
Mr Khan deplored it was sad how no one from the government came forward to express grief at his death.
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Senior journalist Mr Ziauddin Ahmed sent his message saying ZIM would be well remembered and that he was an all-in-one package.
Khawar Mumtaz also spoke about her time spent with ZIM in Viewpoint, saying he always had a twinkle in his eye. `Initially, I did not understand who this disheveled, unkempt person was,` she laughed. `In f act, I remember how Auntie Alys (Faiz) used to get annoyed at him.
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Salima Hashmi added that her mother would probably be irked mostly at his appearance: she wanted him neat and shaved when coming to of fice but he refused to do so. `But as a journalist, my mother was a great admirer of his work, so we can say there was a love-hate relationship! His colleague and friend Husain Nagi said that in order to understand ZIM, it`s important to understand Lahore. `In those days Lahore was a strange and crazy city with strange and crazy people, he said. `There were all kinds of weird people here.
He said he met ZIM, a well dressed and handsome man, for the first time in the Pak Tea House. He described ZIM as an earthy and affable person who made friends with all kinds of people. `He once gave five rupees (guite an amount at that time) to a beggar, and when asked why, he told us his logic: the man had come from another province and so would need more! He had made friends with rickshaw drivers and they would often have tea on his expense.
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`He was a genuine person and immensely disliked bogus people, said Mr I A Rehman. Dr Akmal Hussain also spoke appreciating ZIM`s resistance to the status quo and dictatorship through a fine selection of words.
`Now with a clampdown on freedom of expression, what ZIM did must be remembered.
It was because of him many journalists and columnists grew their readership. They wrote their stories and it was ZIM who was their `back.
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https://epaper.dawn.com/DetailNews.php?StoryText=07_12_2019_176_006
Further readings click here
Zafar Iqbal Mirza, better known as ZIM, is no more. He worked for the Civil and Military Gazette, Pakistan Times, Muslim, Viewpoint and Dawn. Sub-editor of speed and accuracy, editor who had an eye on each department, an incisive comment-maker and a penetrating columnist — yes, but these traits hardly exhaust the possibilities of covering in full the many-sided person that was ZIM.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2112442/6-tahir-zim-no/
https://punjabpunch.blogspot.com/2019/12/zim-by-saqlain-imam-by-choice-he-was.html
https://punjabpunch.blogspot.com/2019/12/zim-by-rauf-kalasara-let-us-rethink.html
https://punjabpunch.blogspot.com/2019/12/iconic-journalist-zafar-mirza-is-no.html
https://punjabpunch.blogspot.com/2019/12/obituary-of-zim-by-imtiaz-alam-last-man.html
Interview of Zim by Mahmood ul Hassan
https://punjabpunch.blogspot.com/2012/06/interview-of-zim-bhadur.html
My government college days
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157571453911648&set=pcb.10157571464151648&type=3&theater
His book Last Man IN available @Readings Lhore.
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