Jehanzeb Aziz is a Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i humorist and short-story writer in the Urdu and Punjabi

Punjabi language

Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...

 languages. He is disciple of some of the most illustrious writers of the South Asia, Muhammad Khalid Akhter and Syed Zamir Jafery.

Life

Jehanzeb Aziz began writing humorous articles and stories during his school days. His first articles were published in a popular Urdu monthly magazine Hakayit in 1986. He was a pilot in the Pakistan Air Force

Pakistan Air Force

The Pakistan Air Force is the leading air arm of the Pakistan Armed Forces and is primarily tasked with the aerial defence of Pakistan with a secondary role of providing air support to the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Navy. The PAF also has a tertiary role of providing strategic air transport...

 before leaving for creative pursuits. His first book Aik Dafa Ka Zikr Hae, a compilation of short stories

Short Stories

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 and articles was published in 1993 while he was still serving in the Pakistan Air force. Sajri Seware, his Punjabi(potohari) language novel, was dramatized and telecast on PTV

Pakistan Television Corporation

The Pakistan Television Corporation is Pakistan's national television broadcaster. The first live transmission of PTV began on November 26, 1964, in Lahore...

 in 1998. The serial was nominated for a Pakistan television award as the best regional language drama serial in 1999.

Another of his passions is television

Television

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 productions. He produced a 6 episode drama serial Shahpar based on life in the Pakistan Air Force, for which he received the Musawer Award in 1998. He has also produced and directed several documentaries, television commercials and music videos. His work is simple, spontaneous and expressive.

In 1999 he joined the National Database and Registration Authority

National Database and Registration Authority

National Database and Registration Authority is a federal department of the Government of Pakistan that is responsible for issuing identification cards to the citizens of Pakistan. Employing more than 11,000 member of staff and having more than 400 domestic offices and five international offices,...

 (NADRA) as head of Marketing

Marketing

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 and Communications.
He was member of the pioneering team, which launched and implemented this landmark project in the history of the country. NADRA introduced Computerized ID cards, Citizen Database

Database

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, Computerized electoral rolls and machine readable passports.
These days he heads a Behavior Change Communications Project about HIV

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

/AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 in Pakistan and Azad Jumo and Kashmir

Kashmir

Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...

.

Aziz has also written a large number of news reports relating to defense matters, governance and development issues, business and commerce, as well as television commercials and documentaries.

Books, stories, plays and other work

• Aik Dafa ka Zikr Hae (compilation book-1993)
• Pech-o-khum (compilation book-under publication)
• Pahar Mundr aur (2005)
• Sajri seware-Punjabi (1997)

• Six episode drama serial SHAHPAR-story, production.
• Ten episode drama serial SAJRI SEWARE for Pakistan Television-written.
• PAF and Squash (Documentary) - produced, directed
• Inn Fizaoon sa aagay; songs for PAF- produced, directed
• Hawa ka Sipayee; songs for PAF- produced, directed
• National Defense College (Documentary) - produced, directed
• To Sir with Love : A Tribute to Hugh Catchpole- produced, directed
• Red Arrows in Pakistan (Documentary)- produced, directed
• PAK-Turkey Dosti Zindabad (Documentary)- produced, directed

External links

• Author's blog