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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | self-employed |
| Location | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Interests | Adil Ahmad has been researching and writing on the Pakistani socio-economic scene for the last thirty years. In addition to numerous articles and interviews published in Dawn Magazine, Dawn Review, Dawn Images, Dawn Young World, and Dawn Supplements, he has written biographical books on Ameena Saiyid, Tariq Kirmani, and Saifuddin Zoomkawala as part of the Business and Economic Visionaries of Pakistan Series launched by the 21st Century Business & Economics Club. His first book, however, was ‘The White Knight of Trichmir,’ a work of fiction steeped in reality written under the pseudonym Korangi Jack. His most recent book has been upon Ahmad Allawala, the legendary oilman, commissioned by his Punjabi Saudagar Biradari. Most of Adil Ahmad’s work in the last ten years has been in the corporate communications field, and he has written up and edited the TCS Customer News Magazine CONNECT since 2003 in addition to conceiving, writing up and editing the inaugural Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) Newsletter, as well as LANDMARK, the News Magazine of the 21st Century Business & Economics Club. Adil Ahmad is also writing for and the Editor of the corporate trainers magazine octara.com. Work in progress includes ‘The Casualties of War: BCCI and the Attack of the Neo-Barbs’, a book based on the Swaleh Naqvi memos, and 'Escape from the Taliban', an account of Satish Anand's kidnapping and six months in Taliban captivity. While these two promise to remain in cold storage due to publisher inhibitions, two books that he was commissioned to do have seen the light of day. These are 'Hepatitis Prevalence in Pakistan - Fighting a Losing Battle' (on behalf of The Health Foundation), and the biography of S. M. Muneer, industrialist and entrepreneur par excellence (Leather, Textiles, and Vice Chairman Muslim Commercial Bank) 'Bright Spark from Sholapur' (on behalf of the 21st Century Business & Economics Club). |