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Aslam Azhar was born on 2 September, 1932 in Lahore, Punjab, British India, is a Pakistani television executive (1932-2015). Discover Aslam Azhar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?
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Business manager |
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83 years old |
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Virgo |
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2 September 1932 |
Birthday |
2 September |
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Lahore, Punjab, British India |
Date of death |
29 December 2015 at age 83 |
Died Place |
Islamabad, Pakistan |
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India
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Aslam Azhar Height, Weight & Measurements
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Aslam Azhar Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Aslam Azhar worth at the age of 83 years old? Aslam Azhar’s income source is mostly from being a successful television. He is from India. We have estimated Aslam Azhar's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Aslam Azhar (2 September 1932 – 29 December 2015) was a Pakistan Television executive, considered to be the "founding father of Pakistan Television".
He was the first Chairman and Managing Director of PTV first appointed during Ayub Khan government in November 1964 when PTV Lahore Center first started broadcasting and went on the air.
He was awarded the Tamgha-i-Pakistan (Medal of Pakistan) for his pioneering services in the television broadcasting field by the President of Pakistan.
Surrounded by legendary literary figures and great actors, musicians and singers, Aslam Azhar created an environment for great television in 1964.
He said that, in those days, commitment counted.
Those people were committed and devoted.
It was a very cultured society.
But over the years, like everywhere else in the world, Pakistan had become a consumer society and television plays a consumer product.
He had a reputation of being honest to the core and respected by all at Pakistan Television.
Before the 1970 elections, we decided to cover the elections live.
Even though the technology wasn't advanced enough, and the engineers had no experience with it, we did it."
"Leaders such as Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan, Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and others were given the opportunity to speak live."
Roedad Khan said in his tribute to Aslam Azhar at the event.
Subsequently, in 1988, he became the first Chairman of the PTV who was not a bureaucrat as all earlier chairmen were there because of their being federal information secretaries.
Aslam Azhar was born in Lahore as a son of a government servant during the British Raj.
He studied law at Cambridge University and later worked for the Burmah Oil Company.
He was also interested in theater, and met his wife Nasreen Jan through a theater group.
Meanwhile, Pakistani government wanted to set up a television service in the country.
The Japanese were given the contract to set up a pilot television station in Lahore.
Aslam Azhar was asked to come to Lahore from Karachi and start the television station in Lahore.
He convinced the renowned writers Ashfaq Ahmed and Anwar Sajjad to write for television.
Faiz Ahmad Faiz, his favorite poet, became his friend, too.
He died on 29 December 2015 at the age of 83.
His funeral was performed on 30 December 2015 at Islamabad, Pakistan.
He has two sons, Usama Azhar and Arieb Azhar, who is a musician, and a daughter, Umaima Azhar.
Also among the survivors was his wife of 51 years, Nasreen Azhar.
In 2016, one of the major English-language Pakistani newspaper commented, "He was one of the founding fathers of Pakistan Television (PTV) – the title not merely an empty slogan. When the medium came to Pakistan in 1964, Azhar spearheaded its evolution, and did not make his exit before making PTV a dynamic broadcasting institution."
Another Pakistani veteran bureaucrat Roedad Khan said, 'I called Aslam Azhar, who was general manager at the time, and said I don't know much about television but I want to learn.