Ziauddin Ahmad Suleri (or ZA Suleri; 1913-1999) was a notable journalist and writer from Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. He served as Editor of Dawn

Dawn (newspaper)

Dawn is Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper. One of the country's two largest English-language dailies, it is the flagship of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, published by Pakistan Herald Publications, which also owns the Herald, a magazine, the evening paper The Star and...

and the Pakistan Times

Pakistan Times

Pakistan Times is an independent online daily newspaper. It is published from Islamabad.-External links:**...

and founded the Times of Karachi. He was outspoken and frequently jailed for his statements and activities. He was also called Pip (short for patriotic and preposterous). In 1965 he headed Military Public Relations directorate of Pakistan. In his early life he was an activist of Pakistan movement

Pakistan Movement

The Pakistan Movement or Tehrik-e-Pakistan refers to the historical movement to have an independent Muslim state named Pakistan created from the separation of the north-western region of the Indian subcontinent, partitioned within or outside the British Indian Empire. It had its origins in the...

 and wrote My Leader, the first semi-biographical work in English on Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a Muslim lawyer, politician, statesman and the founder of Pakistan. He is popularly and officially known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam and Baba-e-Qaum ....

. He was also the chairman of Quaid-i-Azam Academy

Quaid-i-Azam Academy

The Quaid-i-Azam Academy is an institution of the Pakistan Government to promote the study and understanding of the personality and work of Quaid-i-Azam, his associates, the Pakistan Movement and of the various aspects of Pakistan....

. He died of a heart attack in Lahore

Lahore

Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

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Works

• My leader (1944)
• The Road to Peace and Pakistan (1944)
• Influence of Islam on World Civilization
• Shaheed-E-Millat Liaquat Ali Khan, Builder of Pakistan
• Al-Quran
• Whither Pakistan

His unfinished biography

When ZA Suleri wanted to write his autobiography, he chose Boys Will Be Boys as its title. The autobiography never materialised, and after his death when his daughter, Sara Suleri

Sara Suleri

Sara Suleri Goodyear, born Sara Suleri, is an author and, since 1983, professor of English at Yale University, where her fields of study and teaching include Romantic and Victorian poetry as well as a recent interest in Edmund Burke. Her special concerns include postcolonial literatures and...

, decided to write a tribute to him, she gave this title to the book.

External links

Articles

• ZA Suleri: A daughter remembers, from Khalidhasan.net
• ZA Suleri Passes away, from PakSearch

Book links

• Boys Will Be Boys : A Daughter's Elegy, from Amazon ISBN 0226304019
• The Road to Peace and Pakistan by ZA Suleri, from Antiqbook
• Meatless Days by Sara Suleri, from World Literatures