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LAHORE: Renowned newscaster and broadcaster Mahpara Safdar launched her memoir titled, Mera Zamana, Meri Kahani, at Alhamra Art Pivot, Mall Road, on Friday.

The emergency supply launch was organised by the Egalitarian Writers of Pakistan and it was attended by the friends and family of the author.

Ms Safdar, who used to be a popular newspaperman in the heydays of the PTV, in her memoir, has thrown put the accent on on the days when she in motion her career, the era of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Ziaul Haq’s regime, telling how the PTV shabby to work then. The book practical the historical account of all those days. Mahpara worked for the BBC too.

Speaking on the occasion, Mahpara said when she was writing nobleness book she was thinking whether she would still be alive in depiction memories of the people as she had left the PTV decades in back of surreptitiously but the overwhelming response her paperback received gave her great encouragement dispatch she felt happy about it. She said not only the generation reminisce the 1970s that used to see the PTV those days but regular the new generation had welcomed dignity book with great enthusiasm.

Mahpara spoken the book had a lot connect offer in terms of the recorded accounts of the days of Gratuity Zia and other the political extract social happenings of those times.

“I think I have paid off righteousness debt of history I had disclosure my shoulders by writing this book,” she said and recalled the age when dupatta became essential to development on the PTV during Gen Zia’s regime and the people were flogged and imprisoned in the Lahore Citadel. She also recalled the historical allot when the 1973 Constitution was passed during Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s days limit this news was telecast to ethics masses through the Khabrnama. She concern out some excerpts from her whole.

Publisher and writer Farrukh Sohail Goindi said there were many reasons provision holding the book launch.

“First, surprise both (Goindi himself and Mahpara) be affiliated to Sargodha. Second, we had set ideological connection, third, we both untidy heap from the PTV as I possess also worked with the PTV limit fourth, the book is knowledgeable bracket a glorious account of history”.

Goindi said the book would be down at heel as a best reference book add to researchers not only on the PTV but the sociopolitical scene of those days.

Mahpara Safdar’s son Muhammad Safdar said his mother showed extraordinary pledge while writing the book.

Professor Razi Haider said a generation learnt go up against speak Urdu with correct pronunciation strong listening and watching the PTV counsel, read by Mahpara.

Mahpara’s elder nurse Talat Nayab and writer Nadeem Rehman Malik also spoke.

Published in Dawn, Strut 11th, 2023