Agha Shorish Kashmiri | |
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Born | Abdul Karim 14 August 1917 Lahore, Punjab, British India |
Died | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan | 25 October 1975
Pen name | Shorish |
Occupation | Journalist, orator, poet, political activist, historian |
Nationality | Pakistani |
Citizenship | Pakistani |
Genre | Nazm poetry and newsmagazine editor |
Literary movement | Indian independence movement |
Notable works | Chattan weekly magazine of Lahore, Pakistan |
Agha Shorish Kashmiri (1917–1975; آغا شورش کاشمیری) was a Pakistani journalist, scholar, writer, debater, and a leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam party.
He was a figure of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as the chief editor of the weekly Chattan magazine launched from Lahore in Pakistan on 1 January 1949.[1][2]