WARIS MIR

Prof Mohammad Waris Mir, born on November 22, 1938, was an eminent Pakistani writer, journalist, intellectual, and academician of his times who is recognized for his courageous struggle to uphold the cause of democracy and press freedom through his bold writings during the dictatorial era of Pakistan's third military ruler, President General Ziaul Haq. Speaking out at the behest of the people of Pakistan with a mission - ‘to write for the posterity, to speak as the people's voice' - was a task not many could take up in those oppressive days... Waris Mir completed his studies up to college from Murray College, Sialkot, a city of Punjab which is known for its intellectuals in Punjab province of Pakistan. (Poet of the East, Allama Dr Mohammad Iqbal's city). After doing Master's in Journalism/Mass Communication in 1964 from the University of the Punjab, Lahore he joined the same department as a lecturer in 1965. He completed his M. Phil in Journalism from the City College University in..