Waris Mir

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Waris Mir (22 November 1938 – 9 July 1987), was a Pakistani journalist, intellectual, writer and academic known for his struggle to uphold the cause of democracy and press freedom. He was the son of Mir Abdul Aziz, who was a poet in Punjabi, Urdu and Persian.^[1] He was a staunch believer in the basic human rights of freedom of thoughts and expression.^{[citation needed]}