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Waiting for Dawn: memoirs of a journalist in Pakistan

Waiting for Dawn: memoirs of a journalist in Pakistan

Ali Siddiqi, Muhammad

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Political ScienceIndian & South Asian History

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 1912256304
ISBN13: 9781912256303
Publisher: Filament Publishing
Published: Sep 5 2017
Pages: 668
Weight: 1.94
Height: 1.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

No one could be more qualified to write a memoir on Pakistan's turbulent history than a grandstand viewer - and a journalist to boot. With more than half a century of experience in journalism - 49 years at Dawn, South Asia's best paper - Muhammad Ali Siddiqi has been witness to events which have shaped today's Pakistan and Karachi. He lived history as a citizen, and reported and commented as a newsman, in Pakistan and abroad. This book is thus his record for posterity of a mauled, brutalised nation's history. The book is also a mirror to the life of a typical, self-made Karachian struggling to acquire education, while making two ends meet as a typist. This is a tribute as much to the author as to the city that threw open its doors to all those who chose to make it their home. Life for him was anything but a bed of roses, for he would sleep on the editing desk of the Times of Karachi to proceed in the morning to the new campus, located in what then was a wilderness of barren hills and brown land. That was 1960. In 1992, he was at the White House reporting on the Benazir-Clinton summit conference as Dawn's Washington Correspondent.

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