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Majid Nizami Born April 3, 1928
Sangla Hill, Punjab, PakistanOccupation editor, columnist Website The Nation profile Majid Nizami(Urdu: مجید نظامی born 3 April 1928 is the chief editor and publisher of Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications of Pakistan.[1] Nawa-i-Waqt was founded by Majid's brother, Hameed Nizami.
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Early life and education
Majid Nizami was born on April 3, 1928 in Sangla Hill, Sheikhupura. His elementary education was carried out at the Sangla Hill Government High School. He moved to Lahore where he took his Matriculation examination and passed his F.A. from the Islamia College, Railway Road. Upon graduation from the Government College Lahore in 1952, Majid enrolled at University of the Punjab where he read for an M.A. degree in Political Science. His elder brother Bashir Nizami worked day and night in the village as a hair dresser by wandering from village to village to serve his brothers.
After completing his graduation, Majid was sent to England in 1954 to study law and attended Gray's Inn but he could not pass the bar examination. His elder brother, Hameed, called him back to Pakistan but Majid did not return.
Take over at Nawa-i-Waqt
After Ayub Khan imposed martial law in Pakistan, Hameed Nizami came under political pressure due to his influence on the media.[citation needed] Hameed Nizami died in February 1962. Majid then rushed back to take-over his brother's newspaper, Nawa-i-Waqt. After initially being allowed to join, the widow of Hameed Nizami fired him from the newspaper for corruption. After making conspiracies he again overcome to take that empire of newspaper.
Editorial positions
Majid Nizami claims to have supported Muhammad Ali Jinnah's sister, Fatima Jinnah, in the 1965 Pakistani presidential election. He also claims to have opposed Yahya Khan's government. He claims that Z. A. Bhutto slashed the paper's share of government advertisements and may have withheld its quota of newsprint. He further claims that during General Zia-ul-Haq's martial law he supported human rights and democratic freedoms. During the governments of Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, Majid Nizami was at times critical of the governments.
Views
Kashmir & India
Majid Nizami believes that without Kashmir, Pakistan is incomplete. Majid Nizami's editorial positions indicate a strong bias towards making Kashmir a part of Pakistan.
Owing to his stance on Kashmir, he remains a fierce and open opponent of friendly relations with India. Majid Nizami refuses to visit India. He cites Bangladesh as being a direct creation of India and he accuses India of never accepted partition and is relentlessly conspiring to undo Pakistan and undermine its strength.
On 24 June 2008, Nawa-i-Waqt reported it's chief editor, Majid Nizami, as saying that Pakistan should go to nuclear war against India, as its eternal enemy. He acknowledged that a couple of Pakistani cities may be destroyed along with loss of civilian life, but Majid thought it was an acceptable cost since he was confident that Pakistan would win the nuclear war.[2][3]
Pak-China Friendship
Majid Nizami claims to be staunch biased towards China, and promotes Pak-China friendship.
Awami National Party
His editorials are stridently opposed to the Pashtun dominated Awami National Party. In an editorial published in The Nation on 13 October 2011, Majid accused the party of being "inimical to Pakistan" and said that the ANP had "a reason to destroy the (Pakistani) Railways".[4]
Awards and honours
The Pakistan Human Rights Society awarded Mr Majid Nizami the Human Rights Award on January 9, 2005. In light of his dedication to the protection of human rights in Kashmir and his search for a democratic solution to the Kashmir issue, Majid Nizami has been named a Mujahid-i-Kashmir.[clarification needed] He has numerous times been elected the president of the APNS and CPNE, professional bodies of publishers and editors.[clarification needed] He has received the Sitara-i-Pakistan, Sitara-i-Imtiaz and the Nishan-i-Imtiaz.[citation needed] General Zia-ul-Haq recommended him as a nominee to the Shura (Parliament),[citation needed] Prime Minister Junejo suggested the Governorship of the Punjab to him[citation needed] and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with his father offered him the Presidency of the country.[citation needed] All of which he respectfully declined,[citation needed] saying that the title of the editor of Nawa-i-Waqt is what best grants him the opportunity and privilege of serving his country.[citation needed]
Controversies
Majid Nizami ousted his nephew, Arif Nizami, son of Hameed Nizami, from the latter's position as the Chief Editor of The Nation due to personal differences.[5][6] Arif Nizami had founded The Nation and served as its Chief Editor from the start. Arif's father, Hameed, had founded and owned the Nawa-i-Waqt Group, which Majid Nizami ran after Hameed's death while Arif was still a child.
See also
- The Nation (Pakistani newspaper)
- Nawa-i-Waqt
- List of Pakistani journalists
References
- ^ http://www.nation.com.pk/majid-nizami.html
- ^ "Media baron wants India to be defeated in a nuclear war". Viewpoint. 2008-06-25. http://www.viewpointonline.net/Old/fullstory.php?t=Media%20baron%20wants%20India%20to%20be%20defeated%20in%20a%20nuclear%20war&f=full-8-june-25.php&y=2010&m=june. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
- ^ "Dazed, Confused, Clueless Majid Nizami, The Nation & NawaiWaqt". Chagatai Khan. 2010-12-12. http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2010/12/dazed-confused-clueless-majid-nizami.html. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
- ^ "Railways’ sorry tale". The Nation. 2011-10-13. http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Opinions/Editorials/13-Oct-2011/Railways-sorry-tale.
- ^ "CPNE move to resolve issues at The Nation". The Dawn Media Group. 2009-09-15. http://archives.dawn.com/archives/136162. Retrieved 2011-10-03.
- ^ "Arif Nizami to launch newspaper". The Dawn Media Group. 2009-09-13. http://archives.dawn.com/archives/42698. Retrieved 2011-10-03.
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