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Qazi Abdul Jaleel
Qazi Abdul Jaleel
	امر جليل
Born	November 8, 1936 (age 87); Kazi Mohala, Taluka Rohri, Sukkur Sindh, Pakistan

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Qazi Abdul Jaleel (Sindhi: قاضي عبدالجليل) (born 1936 in Rohri), popularly known as Amar Jaleel, is a Sindhi fiction writer and a columnist whose columns appears in various Sindhi, Urdu and English-language dailies of Pakistan. He frequently plays with a dark sense of humor in his writings.

Early life

Jaleel started writing stories when he was 10 years old. He played for his NJV School and also featured briefly in first class cricket as wicketkeeper-batsman.^{[citation needed]}

Professional life

Amar Jaleel started his career at Radio Pakistan, Karachi before being transferred to Islamabad, where he worked in different positions at radio and educational institutions. Now retired, Jaleel currently resides in Karachi, Sindh, where he spends his leisure time writing articles for various Pakistan newspapers, and is known as a popular columnist for Dawn and The Nation.

Thinking

As a political analyst he has repeatedly returned to one theme: why partition was wrong. Amar Jaleel is a prominent polemicist against the All-India Muslim League.^{[citation needed]}

His articles have found publication in Pakistan's leading newspapers, including the Dawn, which has historical foundations in the Pakistan Movement itself.

Books

He has written hundreds of short stories in Sindhi; he has also written one novel in Sindhi titled Naith Gongey Ghalahyo ("Thus Dumb Spoke"). Some of Amar Jaleel's best known books are:

Sindhu Muhinje Saah Mein ("Sindhu in my Soul") - The most dominating character in Amar Jaleel's stories is the Sindhu (his beloved, his listener).
Dil Jee Duniya ("The World of Heart") - A TV show based on this story was broadcast on PTV.
Jadanh Maa'n Na Hoondus ("When I Won't Be There") - Banned when first published, this book is about a man in jail and his thoughts. It was banned because it was published the same year that Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was jailed and executed, and so the government thought it was about him.
Tareekh Jo Kafan ("History's Coffin")
Munhinjo Dus Aasman Khan Puchho ("The Sky Would Give My Whereabouts")
Tiyoon Wujood ("Third-Time Existence")
Wichaar, a web portal, has printed a book of Amar Jaleel's selected stories in Punjabi translation. The book's title is Amar Kahanian.

Amar Jaleel's columns in Dawn Magazine 2007

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