Syed Mohammad Taqweem Ahsan (Urdu: سید محمد تقویم احسن), nom de plum S. M. Taqweem (Urdu: ایس ایم تقویم) is a journalist, social worker, and newsreader from Pakistan. He is the founder president of a welfare organisation called "Burncare".
Early life and education
S. M. Taqweem was born in Lahore. He received his primary education at Abbottabad and afterwards studied at Lahore until he matriculated, and then again proceeded to Abbottabad, where he studied for his degree (FSc). After graduating from Lahore, he was admitted to the University of the Punjab for an MA in journalism.
Journalistic career
S. M. Taqweem is a senior journalist, with a quarter of a century's experience. He has worked for almost all of Pakistan's major newspapers. His career started in 1979 as a cartoonist for the "Saadat". In 1980 he joined the Nawa-i-Waqt in Lahore as a trainee, and then The Pakistan Times in 1982. He joined the daily Jang in Lahore as a sub-editor, where he continued until 1990. Taqweem joined the Daily Pakistan as a senior sub-editor, in which role he stayed till 1997, when he resigned in order to join the Din newspaper as chief news editor/deputy editor; in 2002 he joined the Awaz, where he is currently working as chief news editor.
In 1995 he applied to the London School of Journalism in the United Kingdom; his application was accepted, but he was unable to follow up on it due to the severe illness of his wife.
He has worked as a newsreader for Radio Pakistan, in Lahore.
References
External links Official website Burncare website