Irshad Ahmed Haqqani, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Irshad Ahmed Haqqani

Pakistani politician

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1928

Date of Death: 24-Jan-2010

Profession: politician, journalist

Nationality: Pakistan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Irshad Ahmed Haqqani (6 September 1928 – 24 January 2010) was a senior editor, veteran journalist and reputed column writer for the Jang Group of Newspapers.
He also served as federal information minister in Malik Meraj Khalid’s caretaker government in 1996–97. His series of columns have been published in many volumes in Urdu language.
His famous column "Heraf Temana" has still great influence even after his death, upon people of Pakistan especially intellectuals and politicians of Pakistan.
He often used to publish in his column, a letter of an eminent Politician on a national issue, and thus a national political debate was started by the letters of others politicians and intellectuals published in his columns.
He often criticized the Martial Law Government of General Muhammad Zia Ul Haq and General Pervaiz Musharraf.