Obaidullah Alvi

Mohammed Obaidullah Alvi is an authority on Kohsar History, language, literature, ethnography and anthropology. He is the author of Tehzib-o-Tmaddun-e-Kohsar (2 vol history books from 5000 BC to 2000 AD ) Allah na Saneha (Translation of Holly Quraan in Dhondi/Kareali/Potohari languages) and compiler of first Dhondi/Kareali/Potohari language dictionary. He is high qualified journalist and founder of two local newspapers Hill Post and Hill News largest circulated weeklies. Mohammed Obaidullah Alvi [http://www.kohsar.zoomshare.com] was born on 8th Nov, 1963 in Birote , Circle Bakote district Abbottabad. His father Mohammed Abdullah Alvi was an Islamic scholar from Deoband India. He metric from GHS Birote, FA from Inter college Bakot, graduation from Gordon College Rawalpindi and MA Journalism from Urdu Arts College Karachi. He is an Arabic and Urdu calligrapher and started his carrier from Daily Haider Rawalpindi in 1981 and after graduation he migrated Karachi and joined Daily Mashriq as sub-editor in 1985. He also worked with a publication organization The Initiator (Pvt) Ltd. Karachi from Sep. 87 to Aug. 88, where he complied first Political Encyclopedia of Pakistan. After a few months he joined Daily Nawa-i-Waqt Karachi on same post. He started publication of first weekly newspaper of Murree, Circle Bakote The Hill Post and Founder & Editor The Media Monitor by Research & Analysis syndicate. It was a new idea in the world of journalism, the MEDIA MONITOR provided index and clipping from 32 newspapers from all over the country according to demands of P.R. departments. It covered printed news, editorials, articles, features & photographs on more than twenty subjects. Jan. 92 to Sep 93. The Hill Post in 1988. He returned Islamabad in 1990 and Joined Weekly Musalman (now Daily Musalman) on the offer of ex-federal minister and leader of newspaper seller community Tikka Khan Abbasi as editor till 1992. He than become news editor of Editor Weekly Akhbar-e-Waten London (Pakistan Office in R. Pindi) Aug 88 to July 93. He spent one year in The News Rawalpindi and than rejoined Daily Nawa-e-Waqt Islamabad. He is Founder & Editor the Media Monitor by Research & Analysis syndicate. It was a new idea in the world of journalism, the MEDIA Monitor provided index and clipping from 32 newspapers from all over the country according to demands of public relation departments. It covered printed news, editorials, articles, features & photographs on more than twenty subjects. He also injected a new form of journalism in mass communication that called Scanning Report of a newspaper. It includes comparative study of other newspapers, analysis of all contents of a newspaper and showed the technical errors related to Reporting, editing, subbing, arts section, composing, proofreading, graphics and finally printing among news missing report of reporting section. He developed this journalistic science in Islamabad, and now he is the research editor of Daily Islam in Karachi and this science is his special field. Now he is publishing Pakistan !st property business related weekly PBC Times from Karachi. He is exective editor of daily SADA I KOHSAR Rawalpindi/islamabad now.