Obaidullah Aleem

Obaidullah Aleem (Urdu: عبیدالله علیم, 12 June 1939 – 18 May 1998) was a Pakistani poet of Urdu language.

Aleem was born in 1939 in Bhopal, British India. He received an MA in Urdu from the University of Karachi and began working as a radio and television producer until 1967.

In 1974, his first book of poetry Chand Chehra Sitara Ankhhen was published. He was a senior producer at the Karachi station of Pakistan Television Corporation until he was forced to resign in 1978 following an edict against him.^{[dead link]}

His book of poetry received the highest award in literature in Pakistan, the Adamji Prize. He wrote an article, Khurshid missal shakhs, in memory of Khalifatul Masih III in 1982.^{[citation needed]} His second collection of poetry Viran saray ka diya was published in 1986.

In March 1998 he suffered a severe heart attack in Punjab and was hospitalized for a few days. He returned to his residence at Nazimabad in Karachi.^{[citation needed]} He died from heart failure, following another heart attack on 18 May 1998.