Introduction Of Sohail Ahmed Siddiqui

Sohail Ahmed Siddiqui was born on December 15, 1964, at Karachi, Pakistan. He is a multi-lingual writer, poet and journalist. He is the foremost and only Pakistani poet whose two English poems have been included in 3 world anthologies, published from USA, in 1992, 1994 and 2002 and six English Haiku poems included in world anthology, 'Wild Flowers, New Leaves', published by the World Haiku Club, UK in 2001. He is the only Pakistani poet, invited to attend the World Haiku Festival and participate in the Haiku & essay contests, organised by the same organisation, in August, 2000. His name was recommended by world-renowned, US poet and scholar, Bill Higginson. One of his English Haiku was not only included in the World Haiku Contest of Japan, by ASAHI, in 2001, but also mentioned as the feature Haiku, on a US website, www.earthlanguage.org, with Japanese translation.

Further, to his credit, he has authored/compiled and edited several books, including others, besides editing and publishing 'Haiku International', the premier and only multi-lingual Haiku journal of South Asia, since 1998. He had served the pre-eminent international, English language Hockey magazine of Pakistan, 'Pakistan Hockey' as de-facto editor, for two years, i.e. 1990-1992,

As free-lance television writer/researcher, he has the privilege of standing as 'A' category writer, ever since he joined Pakistan Television in 1993- very few writers are there in the history of national hook-up, who earned this laurel purely on the basis of merit. He has scripted several plays, research-oriented programmes, documentaries, children programmes, social roundups, for various channels, besides assisting a senior in the historic documentary, 'PTV ka safar' (Journey of PTV-30 years), in 1994. He has contributed to some international events, in the capacity of Quiz compiler and judge, as well.

Sohail started his broadcasting career as a radio talker, in 2004 by delivering his own research-based speeches, in 30 episodes, aired on daily basis, in the Holy Ramadan, by the national FM channel, FM-101. The programme, 'Raushni ke Dareechay' was re-broadcast the following year, as a result of superb feedback from the audience.
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