Farman Ali

Farman Ali is a senior journalist and political worker.
He lives in Islamabad, working as the Edition-in-Charge/news editor of Islamabad Metropolitan of , the most prestigious English language daily newspaper of Pakistan. Previously he has worked with the daily Business Recorder, the daily Financial Post and Dawn in Karachi for more than fifteen years. Despite working with the major English language newspapers in Karachi, he also contributed a lion’s share in the Urdu language magazines: Tullo-e-Karakorum, Yull, Sha’oor, Naya Samaj and Peace & Justice. In 1992, he launched an Urdu language monthly magazine Boloristan from Karachi. This magazine was for the deprived people of Gilgit-Diamer and it proved to be a trendsetter. Those who worked with this magazine are now either having their own magazines/newspapers or working with the leading media organizations of the country.
Farman has been worked actively with the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and Rawalpindi/Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ). He was fascinated by the leftist political ideology from the very beginning. The breakdown of the USSR has not brougt any change in his communist ideology 15 years later.
Farman Ali was born on June 7, 1960, in Shimshal, a village in Gojal, the Northern Areas of Pakistan. After primary school in his native village, he moved to Gulmit, the Tehsil Headquarter of Gojal after two years he moved to Gilgit to do his matric education and then to Karachi.

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