This is another addition to the number of books tha stand to the name of ABS Jafri. He has written books, tracts, pamphlets on a variety of subjects ranging from serious politics, to sharp literary criticism, to travelogue. He has also written competently on sports, specializing in cricket and tennis. He has been a cricket commentator for the print as well as the electronic media. He has also worked for BBC and Reuters.
Jafri ranks among senior journalists. he started his career in June, 1947 as a reporter for a news agency in New Delhi. August 7 the same year saw him in Karachi on a brief assignment to cover the inauguration of Pakistan. As it turned out, there was no going back. However, two years later he was back In New Delhi, this time as a foreign correspondent, representing the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP). This stint made Jafri the first journalist of the new country to become a foreign correspondent.
In 1958 Jafri joined The Pakistan Times, Lahore as assistant editor. He served that national newspaper for over twenty years and rose to be its Resident Editor in the country's capital.
The advent of the Zia dictatorship placed intolerable strains on him, resulting before long in his decision to choose exile. After some wanderings in foreign lands he accepted an offer to be the Managing Editor of The Kuwait Times. He served that leadig newspaper of the Gulf region for over ten years.
The demise of the dictator in an air crash (August 17, 1988) cleared his way to return home. Back in Pakistan, he edited The Muslim, Islamabad for over two years and briefly The Pakistan Observer. The association with The Muslim came to an abrupt end as a result of some differences over a sudden shift in the paper's policy compromising its political independence.
Jafri is now a free lance writer, contributing frequently to Dawn and The Nation and frequently writing political commentaries for Radio Pakistan.
Jafri's personal friends and those acquainted with him through his writings describe him as a 'no-nonsense' journalist. He is fiercely independent and sharply outspoken. Fear is alien to his chemistry. He insists that freedom of expression is too fragile to servive the smallest compromise and too strong for dictators' flats to subdue. He believes no price is too much to pay for a journalist's freedom and honour. He does not regret his long years in self-imposed exile although he does feel those were ten lost years of his life.
Even so, the bargain was worth it.
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