Asif Raza Morio
Historian, Archaeologist, Editor, creative author, play writer, columnist, Biographer.
Name : Asif Raza Morio
Father’s Name: Dur Mohammed.
Date of Birth : 01-04-1969.
Qualification : M.A. (Political Science). M.A. (Sociology)
Postal Address Morio Fort, A. B. Rind Town ship, Airport Road Larkano, Sindh, Pakistan.
Professional Experience:
o Started his writing career as Columnist in daily Sindhi Newspaper Awami Awaz and Daily Pak from the year 1998 to 2002.
o Engaged in writing short history columns as Peep in the Past in Daily English Newspaper Dawn during the year 2002/2003.
o Editor.
International English Magazine Jewel Time Pakistan
(Karachi) in the year 2004.
o Resident Editor
Daily Urdu Newspaper Imroze (Karachi) for Sindh.
o Resident Editor
Daily Khaleej Times (Dubai) for Pakistan.
o Special Correspondent.
Daily Urdu Newspaper Ummat (Karachi)
Weekly Magazine Takbeer (Karachi)
Monthly Magazine Ghazi (Karachi)
o Managing Editor
Monthly Urdu/Sindhi Magazine Kalakar (Karachi) since 1995.
o Executive Editor
Monthly Urdu/Sindhi/English Magazine Shaheed Rani (Larkana) since 2007.
Asif Raza Morio
Asif Raza Morio is practiced historian journalist, who has been considered not only among some courageous journalists of his country but from few young and true press investigators of the time. He is functioning as researcher, columnist, editor in print and anchor of media as well.
- • Contents
- • Birth place/Early life
- • Education
- • Professional career
- • Professional Positions
- • Selected Books
- • Articles and essays
- • See also
- • References
- • External Links
Birth place/Early Life
Asif Raza was born in 1st April 1969, in village Soomar Khan Morio (famous as Kot Mirza Kalo), a distant village which is roughly 30 kilometers away from Larkano city of Sindh in Pakistan. His father Dur Mohammed was a land owner who has seven daughters and four sons.
Education
Asif Raza attended his primary education up to 5th in his township and from 6th to 8th three kilometers away from his native village in Veehar town. Asif passed his Matriculation Degree from D.C. High school Larkano while he approved his bachelor degree from Shah A. Latif University Khair pur whilst he passed master degrees in Sociology and political science.
Professional career
Asif Raza started his journalism profession from few magazines like monthly Adab-e-Arz Digest Lahore, Monthly Shama Magazine Karachi, Monthly Magazine Kalakar as Managing Editor, Monthly Sindhi Magazine Mohen-Jo-Daro as Editor, Monthly Sindhi Magazine Sabhya etc: He started critique writing in Sindhi daily newspapers Awami Awaz, Daily Pak and Daily Kawish, Dawn newspaper.
Morio steadily started taking attention in research writing. By joining Daily Ummat, weekly Takbeer and monthly Gazi Magazine he has become grown-up and professional journalist and there started his capable career in newspaper journalism. This office not only nourished him completely but played important character in career building. Asif Raza became resident editor of Pakistan for Khaleej Times, where he was responsible for the articles of Asian history, archeology and anthology articles where he did award-winning research services.
Asif Raza has been vice president of UNGC local networks in Larkano for four years. He has assisted National Geographic Channel team in two projects of Treasures of Kremlin and Golden hoards of Bacteria. He is a pointed analyst of the history of Sindh who in his works facilitates the missing links and bogus penetrations into Asian history by defogging the delusions and incorrect beliefs of times gone by with his original researches.
Asif raza served in wide groups of media organizations where has corresponded major media, social, historical and archaeological issues. For his responsibilities he traveled the world following major stories such as Bamian crises in Afghanistan, Earth quake in Northern areas of Pakistan and tsunami in Sri Lanka as well. He has moreover reported on crises from places such as Kashmir, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and Israel. He also courageously accounted the court-martial of American soldiers for abuses at Abu Ghraib prison along with his reporting skills from the West Bank on the violence in the Middle East.
Throughout his career Asif has been dedicated toward exploration, environment, history and human issues. He is among those who sow the seed of introducing earning media technology through product and strategic development. He has been media strategy consultant, corporate, editorial and program developer of many organizations.
Asif has earned award recognitions such as the Amy pen award 2005 for distinguished achievement in research Journalism. South African National Editors’ forum awarded him as best social critique on his research on the topic of third gender in 2004.
Asif Raza has written more than forty books on unusual topics among which further than fifteen manuscripts are published and by winning enormous fame and name surmised him among global celebrity authors. His works has been translated in many languages.
Engr Waqar Khan Laghari, Started My Studies of Primary Education from Village Saindad Khan Laghari.,
