Obaidullah Aleem

Aleem was born in 1939 in Bhopal, India.[1] He received an MA in Urdu from the University of Karachi and began working as a radio and television producer until 1967.[1]

In 1974, his first book of poetry Chand Chehra Sitara Ankhhen was published.[1] He was senior producer at Karachi station Pakistan Television Corporation until he was forced to resign in 1978 following an edict against him.[1]

His book of poetry received the highest award in literature in Pakistan, the Adamji Prize.[1] He wrote an article, Khurshid missal shakhs, in memory of Khalifatul Masih III in 1982. His second collection of poetry Viran saray ka diya was published in 1986.[1]

In March 1998 he suffered a severe heart attack in Punjab and was treated in Fazl-e-Omar Hospital for a few days. He returned to his residence at Nazimabad in Karachi. He died from heart failure, following another heart attack on 18 May 1998.[2][3]

• 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• Chiragh Jaltey Hen: The Unpublished Poetry of Obaidullah Aleem, (Facsimile edition edited by Rehan Qayoom, 2014)

• Obaidullah Aleem - Aleem's Ghazals (in videos)
• Obaidullah Aleem - Aleem's Ghazals in Aleem's own videos and his own voice
• "Killings, bloodshed across Muslim world: Who are the killers, Who are getting killed?". Indscribe. 20 August 2007. Retrieved 20 May 2019.