Faiz Ahmed Faiz as Editor-In-Chief of Pakistan Times and the Poetry, ‘Hum Dekhenge’ He Wrote In Prison

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It was 1946 and Partition was all but a certainty. While Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s All India Muslim League pushed for the creation of Pakistan, it failed to create organisational networks early on to ease the lives of the people ‘belonging’ to what is today called Pakistan. Of these absent organisational networks was a newspaper aimed at serving as the people’s voice. It was not until May 1946 that Progressive Papers Limited was established and with it, Pakistan Times.

The paper, while not an official mouthpiece of the Muslim League, announced “We are a Muslim League paper” in its editorial by its first editor-in-chief, Faiz Ahmad Faiz.

Faiz today is widely known as poet, author, communist, teacher and army officer. But editor-in-chief of Pakistan Times is an identity of his that is often overshadowed. His poem, Hum Dekhenge, has taken India by storm as protests erupted across the country against the new citizenship law, but the years that preceded this iconic piece of work are telling of the person he finally became. https://newageislam.com/islamic-personalities/taran-deol/faiz-ahmed-faiz-as-editor-in-chief-of-pakistan-times-and-the-poetry,-%E2%80%98hum-dekhenge%E2%80%99-he-wrote-in-prison/d/121107