Kaleem Omar

Kaleem Omar (KO) (1937 – 25 June 2009) was a Pakistani journalist, and an English language poet.[1]

Life

Born in Lucknow, Omar attended Sherwood College, Naini Tal.[2] He was associated with the Jang Group's daily The News International, in Karachi for the past many years. From 1983 to 1988, he wrote a column for The Star Weekend; beginning in 1989, he wrote for The News.[3]

His work is included in the anthologies Pieces of eight, Wordfall and A Dragonfly in the Sun.[4][5][6]

Kaleem Omar died of heart failure on 28 June 2009.[7]

gollark: No, that's ridiculous. The birds *use* 5G radiation.
gollark: Yes, as computers improve birds will be able to operate more independently but still network together to form a B. I. R. D. superintelligence.
gollark: Not each individual bird, only swarms.
gollark: Yes, the B. I. R. D.s' artificially intelligent distributed control system decided to try and damage humanity, so they used their 5G radiation generators to affect the virus.
gollark: Coronavirus caused birds. It was designed to alter people's memories so they remember B. I. R. D. surveillance drones as if they were real animals, but mutated and became dangerous.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2011-02-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Old Sherwoodians Sherwood College, Nainital - Alumni". www.oldsherwoodians.com.
  3. "Pol Eco, NOS, The News International". jang.com.pk.
  4. Zulfikar Ghose, ed. (1971). Pieces of eight: eight poets from Pakistan: Zulfikar Ghose, M. K. Hameed, Shahid Hosain, Adrian Husain, Nadir Hussein, Kaleem Omar, Taufiq Rafat, Salman Tariq Kureshi. Oxford University Press.
  5. Kaleem Omar, ed. (1975). Wordfall: three Pakistani poets, Taufiq Rafat, Maki Kureishi, Kaleem Omar. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-577217-3.
  6. Muneeza Shamsie, ed. (1997). A Dragonfly in the sun: an anthology of Pakistani writing in English. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-577784-0.
  7. Journalist, poet Kaleem Omar dead Dawn.com. Retrieved on 26 June 2009.


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