Javed Jabbar

Javed Jabbar is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, policy analyst, former senator and federal minister, with a special interest in voluntary work, communications, environment, education, national and international affairs. In 2021, he wrote and produced the 110-minute documentary film ‘Separation of East Pakistan: The Untold Story’ (www.1971Untoldstory.com) which has so far been viewed by over 500,000 viewers across the world. In 2009, as the producer of ‘Ramchand Pakistani’, he won the Lux Award for the Best Cinema Film of 2008, a film that also won international awards. In 2022, he served as Chairman of the Steering Committee to re-record the National Anthem of Pakistan for the first time after its original recording in 1954. The re-recording and its video have been highly praised. He has to his credit 19 books, including anthologies, and one screenplay. Three political memoirs released in 2021-22 on his work with Benazir Bhutto, Farooq Leghari, Meraj Khalid, and Pervez Musharraf (published by Paramount Books in Pakistan) have been widely lauded and became best-sellers on Amazon/Kindle. The third edition of his book, Pakistan—Unique Origins; Unique Destiny? was published in 2017, along with its Urdu and Sindhi language translations. His anthology of selected writings, Pathways won the UBL Literary Award for the Best Non-Fiction English book at the 9th KLF (2018). Three versions of his book What is Pakistaniat? are prescribed in the curriculum of several education and training institutions. In voluntary work, he is the founder and/or chairman of several leading public service organizations. Details at www.javedjabbar.net