Abdus Salam (newscaster) explained

Abdus Salam
Birth Place:	Ajmer Sharif, British India
Nationality:	Pakistani
Occupation:	Radio and TV newscaster
Years Active:	1950s - 1992
Television:	PTV
Awards:	(1988)

Abdus Salam (1925 – 2 July 1992) was a Pakistani newscaster at Radio Pakistan and Pakistan Television. He was posthumously granted the Pride of Performance Award in 1994.

Life and career

Salam was born to a lower middle-class family in 1925 in Ajmer Sharif, British India. He migrated to Pakistan after the Indo-Pak Independence.

Initially, he joined Radio Pakistan, Hyderabad, as a technical operator. But later, he became successful as a news reader. He also worked for Pakistan Television as an Urdu news presenter from 1977 to 1989.^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Death

On 29 June 1992, Salam was hit by a motorcycle when he was leaving the Radio Pakistan station for home after recording the night's news bulletin. Due to severe injuries, he died on 2 July 1992, after remaining 2 days in a coma.

Awards and recognition

Salam received the Nigar Award for best newscaster in 1988.^[4]
Salam was posthumously awarded the Pride of Performance in 1994.^[5]
After his accidental death, Radio Pakistan added a recording of his opening voice as a permanent part of its main bulletin to pay a tribute to his services in the field of broadcasting.

Notes and References

News: Remembering news reader Abdus Salam . Dawn (newspaper). 27 July 2011. 21 July 2023.
News: Abdus Salam (Pride of Performance) — Legend newscaster . Pakistan Observer (newspaper). 2 July 2020. 21 July 2023.
Web site: Death anniversary of legendary newsreader Abdus Salam observed . Radio Pakistan . 2 July 2022 . 27 March 2023.
نگار ایوارڈز برائے سال 1988 . . 2000 . Golden Jubilee Number . 296–297 . ur.
Web site: Abdus Salam (صدارتی تمغہ برائے حسن کارکردگی۔ عبدالسلام) (civil awards in Pakistan are announced on the Independence Day (14 August) each year and ACTUALLY conferred on Yom-e-Pakistan (23 March) the next year). Tareekh e Pakistan . 29 December 2022 . ur.