Resume of Rashid Butt
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Rashid
Butt (Rashid Ahmed Butt)
Jamaluddin
Butt (Late).
April
12, 1943 (As per Passport), Original being: April.04.1944
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l B.A (1964) from
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l M.A
(Journalism)
(Incomplete – Rusticated on political grounds in 1966)
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Joined Daily Jang,
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Joined Daily Jang,
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From 1965, worked with Daily Hurriyet,
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In 1966, got admission in department of journalism,
Those were the times when frequenting a Communist Diplomatic
Enclave simply, was tantamount to be some sort of “Undesirable.” Implied “shadowing”
resulted in 2 years rustication from Karachi University.
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Invited on contract by the Government
of the
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In between, while in Pakistan, worked with Daily Jang Karachi, Hurriyat
Karachi, Central News Organization, Punjabi Unit, Radio Pakistan, Islamabad, Founder
Member of Daily Massawaat Lahore, Founded by Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1970,
Founder Member of Daily AZAD Lahore, Monthly Al-Saif, Islamabad, worked as
Freelance translator for Foreign Publicity Department, Ministry of
Information Islamabad (English to Urdu and vice-versa), Daily Amn Karachi in
the capacities of Senior Sub-Editor, Shift Incharge. Monthly Show Time,
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In 1970 during Yahya Khan Regime forcibly dismissed due to country
wide News Papers/Journalists Strike.
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Daily ASAS
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In 1978, New World Press Beijing
l. Rashid Butt, a Pakistani journalist who worked in the (China's) FLP's
Urdu section for three terms (1967-1969, 1972-1975 and 1977-1983), provides a
vivid description of the workplace over this time….Rashid Butt, 'My Days in China' in Living in China, by Twenty Authors
from Abroad, New World Press, Beijing, 1979. Most of the contributors
have nothing but praise …. but, Butt's
article is not only the most detailed but also the most critical; it also
brings historical and non-Western perspectives to the changes over these
decades. The book must have been considered a success, for a bilingual
version was published in 1982, featuring nine of the original twenty authors.
Remarkably, Butt's critical account was included uncut …. See Living in
Professor
Bonnie S. McDougall, Department of Chinese Studies,
l. Book: Translating Science: the
Transmission of Western Chemistry
into Late Imperial
….As the longest-serving foreign member of the
translation team, Fryer must take a large part of the credit for this. ...
The uneasy relationship between the foreign translator and his or her Chinese
colleagues continues to the present time. ...
See Rashid
Butt, 'My Days in
l. Research Article: Foreign Involvement
in
Colleges
and Universities: A Historical Perspective
…. For over a century foreign educators have entered
R. Butt,
"My Days in
v
Book: Translation Zones in Modern
Bonnie S.
McDougall,
Publishers: Cambria Press,
In (Rashid) Butt's words ..... This sorry state
began to improve in the late 1970s. Miraculously, periodicals, particularly, China
Pictorial, now came out of press relatively on time. The contents are
diversified and have a social flavour…
Beijing
review: Issues 1-26
A
Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen - Page 340
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Edited, Designed and Printed Allied Bank's House Journal
"Alliednews" from 1991 to 1999.
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Translated and Published Z.A. Bhutto's Book "IF I AM
ASSASINATED" in Urdu.
Editing / Production
1.
Edited, Translated, Layout and Prepared for Printing/Publishing bi-lingual
English/Urdu Monthly Newspaper of Hong Kong "Fanlink Post"
2.
Produced the tri-lingual (English, Sindhi, Urdu) Quarterly Journal
"Sindh Madressah Chronicle" of
Sindh Madressahtul Islam
3.
Prepared Comprehensive Research Report on "Jews in
4.
Exhaustive research on Jain Religion, its history, rituals, canons,
fundamentals etc., its existence in the geographical territories of
5.
Edited, Translated, Layout and Prepared for
Printing/Publishing bi-lingual English/Urdu
6.
Edited, Translated, Layout and Prepared for Printing/Publishing bi-lingual
English/Urdu
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Writing Articles occasionally for Daily Express.
Presently: (Books under print)
1.
Research based detailed Report/Book on "Muslims in
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“14 years in
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Selected Writings of Mao Zedong (Urdu).
in one volume covering the period
of 1926 to 1949. These writings deal with the social, economic, political,
neo - colonial subjects. It is interesting that the period of his writings
and thoughts, though bygone, the wilful role of super or developed powers
exists in a new “man-eating” form. And
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From Opium to War of Liberation. Chinese peoples blood - smearing struggle against Opium and
tyrannous opium trading British, European and American colonialists from 1781
to 1940s.
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Strange Tales – Selection from the
Chinese Classical Folklore.
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Old Tales Retold – A masterpiece collection
by
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Translated/Published Chinese Short stories for
Urdu Quarterly Magazine “Ijra”.
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Written/Published Reportage on “
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Written/Published Researched Article “Collage” for Urdu Quarterly
“Collage”.
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Translated/Published Chinese Novelette “At the Middle Age” for Urdu
Quarterly “Collage”.
1.
Research, Compilation, Editing Translation from English to Urdu and
vice versa, Publication of Books and Periodicals and freelance journalistic
writing.
2.
Preparing the research-based Book "Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - A
Writer Laureate, mirrored in his own writings and in the writings of eminent
personalities, writers and poets." (Urdu and English Editions)
3.
Prepared, edited and proof read Telephone Directory of Government of
Sindh.
Rashid
Butt
10-Mehr
Terrace, Street-6,
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Email:
contact_rb44@yahoo.com
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