Ayub Khawar

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The personality of Khawar Ayub is versatile and multidimensional; the list of his achievement is long but here only a quick glimpse of his lifetime attainments is given for the general readers.

The original name of Khawar Ayub is Muhammad Ayub, Khawar Ayub is his pen-name and he has been known well by this name. The name of his father was Muhammad Yaqub Khan, Ayub Khawar was born at Chakwal (Punjab, Pakistan) on 10th of October, 1948, he got early education at the native town, then in 1964 his family moved to Karachi, he passed his SSC Examination fromMaqbool-e-Aam High School Sharf Abad Karachi in 1968, in the same year he was employed at some private school against the salary Rs. 60 per month. Meanwhile he kept continue his studies; he graduated from National College from Karachi in 1975 and qualified M.A in Urdu from Karachi University in 1978. His professional career indicates that he worked at different T.V channels, from 1975 to 1978 at TV Station Chaklala (as Trainee Producer), 1978 to 1980 TV Station Karachi (as Producer), 1980 to 1981 TV Station Peshawar (as Producer), and 1981 to 2005 TV Station Lahore. He got retirement in 2005 and after retirement till now he has been rendering his services as Senior Executive Producer at GEO TV Channel.

During his service in PTV, he worked on different ventures like one act plays, serials, literary programmes, musical shows and talk shows. He worked for the most popular programme “NelaamGhar” with Tariq Aziz, and the most costly programme, “KonBanayGaKarorPati” with worldwide famous figure Zia Moe-u-Din. On account if his devotion, he was awarded with several honours. He also devoted some his time to Radio Pakistan, and got an opportunity to meet conspicuous literary figures like N.M Rashad, Intazar Hussain, Prof. Karar Hussain, Saleem Ahmed, QamarJamil, Dr. AslamFurkhi, Dr. Abul Lais Siddiqui, Dr. Majnoon Ghorakh Puri, Dr. Farman Fateh Puri, Prof. Mumtaz Hussain, Dr. Abul Khair Kashfi and HanifFauq.