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Journalist, write and translator, Khalid Hasan was born in Srinagar, Kashmir, and has written over 30 books. Ten collections of his writings have appeared, including Scorecard, Guve Us Back our Onions, The Umpire Strikes back, Private Views and Question Time. He has translated most of Saadat Hasan Manto’s best work. He has also published The Women’s Quarter, the selected stories of Ghulam Abbas. One of Pakistan’s best known columnists, Khalid Hasan worked for a specialised international news agency in Vienna from 1981 to 1991 and was Zulfiqar Ali Butto’s first press secretary. After spending five years in the country’s foreign service, he resigned to return to the profession of journalism, barring a two-year break from the 1997-99 when he worked from Shalimar Television Network in Pakistan. From 2000 to 2002, he was the special correspondent of Associated Press of Pakistan in Washington D.C.
Khalid Hasan is also the Washington correspondent of Daily Times and The Friday Times, Lahore.
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Fourth Letter to Uncle Sam
Khalid Hasan May 27, 2005 interacts: 29 Views: 9450'Once military aid starts flowing, the first people you should arm are these mullahs. They would also need American-made rosaries and prayer mats, not to forget small stones that they use to soak up the after-drops following a call of nature...'
Third Letter to Uncle Sam
Khalid Hasan May 4, 2005 interacts: 22 Views: 7658But why don’t you send us trousers as well? Don’t you ever take off your trousers? If you do, you probably ship them to India. There has to be a strategy to it because you send us jackets but no trousers which you send to India. When there is
Second Letter to Uncle Sam
Khalid Hasan Apr 26, 2005 interacts: 96 Views: 14907It is possible that women’s legs out here may be better than legs in your country but, uncle, no one flashes them around. Just think about it. The only legs we see are those of our wives: the rest of the legs we consider a forbidden sight. We are ra
First Letter To Uncle Sam
Khalid Hasan Apr 16, 2005 interacts: 38 Views: 12843I had long wanted to translate these letters into English ... What we have here is vintage Manto.
Khalid Hasan
- Articles on Chowk: 4
- First article: Apr 16, 2005
- Latest article: May 27, 2005
- Times read on Chowk: 44858
