Urdu poets (Obaidullah Aleem)

Obaidullah Aleem was a modern Qadyani/Mirzayi/Ahmadi poet of Urdu language. He was born in 1939 in Bhopal – India. His father lived in Sialkot and was from the Butt family. He passed in MA Urdu from Karachi University. He began work as a radio producer, and then as producer for Karachi Television in 1967. He married in 1970. In 1974 his first book of poetry Chand chehra sitara ankhhen was published. In 1978, he was forced to resign from his job following an edict issued against him. His second collection of poetry Viran saray ka diya was published in 1986. He came to England in 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996 and in 1997. In March of this year he suffered a severe heart attack in Chanab Nagar and was treated in Fazl – E – Omer Hospital for a few days. He returned to his residence at Nazimabad no 4. In Karachi. In comparatively good health. Aleem died from heart failure, following a second heart attack.