bfSyed Mofazzal Mohyuddin

Dr. Ghulam Jilani is a General Practitioner by profession. He graduated in medicine from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad in 1989 and is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

ڈاکٹر سید مفضل محی الدین کو اعلی تعلیم کے حصول کی جستجو آسٹریلیا کھینچ لائی۔ سن 2005 میں آسٹریلیا آنے سے پہلے وہ سعودی عرب کی جامع ملک فہد میں درس و تدریس کے فرائض سرانجام دے رہے تھے۔ مغربی آسٹریلیا کی جامع کرٹن سے پی ایچ ڈی مکمل کرنے کے بعد انہوں نے آسٹریلیا کو اپنا نیا وطن بنا لیا اور درس و تدریس کواپنا اوڑھنا بچھونا۔ ڈاکٹر صاحب افرادی قوت کے مضامین کے ماہر ہیں۔ اردو زبان اور اردو ادب سے محبت انہیں پالف میں کھینچ لائی۔ اردو ادب سے محبت انہیں اپنی والدہ سے ورثے میں ملی ہے، انہوں نے
بچپن ہی سے مفضل صاحب کی اردو ادب کے مطالعے کی حوصلہ افزائی کی۔ ڈاکٹر صاحب کا کتاب سے رشتہ آج بھی قائم ہے اور دن بدن مزید پختہ ہوتا رہا ہے۔

پالف کی مجلس منتظمہ میں آپ کی شمولیت قابل ستائش ہے۔ پالف کے تمام ممبران کی طرف سے انہیں پالف کا نائب صدر منتخب ہونے پر مبارک باد پیش کی جاتی ہے اور پالف کے تمام ممبران ان سے تنظیم کو مزید آگے بڑھانے میں بنیادی کردار ادا کرنے کے منتظر ہیں۔

ca Atif Majeed

Atif Majeed is a Technepreneur. He is a Fulbright scholar, with Bachelor and Masters degrees in computer and communications engineering. Currently he is working at Flinders University in the research Commercialization Office. He is also an RPI (USA) alumnus and has provided business development consultancy to over 30 start up companies.

SSaadia Nasir Ali

Saadia Nasir Ali is doing Bachelors in Media from the University of Adelaide and has a passion for both Urdu and English writing. Her writings mainly focus on creating an awareness and understanding of Pakistani culture and history here in Australia. With her strong inter-personal skills she wants to excel in the Media and Literary community.

eaAsma Muhammad

Asma holds a bachelor degree in Environmental Science. She has a very strong understanding of the Pakistani Culture.
Asma is the founder and President of Pakistani Students’ Association of Flinders University Adelaide during 2010-2014. Currently, she is doing her Masters in Business & tourism. She is an active community member, always striving to help others. She has been organizing events for PALF over the last 2 years.

eAyesha Alam

Ayesha Alam has been given the portfolio of information of Pakistan-Australia Literary Forum (PALF) Inc. Previously she was working as an executive member on Management Committee. She is a mother of two sons and one daughter. She was an Assistant Professor of Statistics in Pakistan and currently works in children services, Adelaide.

Ayesha’s vision is to grant her children an appreciation and a strong vision for Pakistani culture in a multicultural society. She believes this can be achieved through the promotion of Urdu using Pakistan-Australia Literary Forum (PALF) Inc., as a platform.

zMrs Fauzia Jilani

Fauzia Jilani hails from the city of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. She holds university degrees in Arts and Education. She moved to Australia permanently with her family in 2007.

She likes travelling, writing and capturing the nature through the lens. She tries her best to help people to whatever extent she can. She is a strong believer in the notion that knowledge needs to be spread or it becomes stagnant and eventually wasted.

Fauzia loves Urdu language and has been an avid reader of Urdu literature. She firmly believes that we must maintain our cultural identity and keep our culture alive. Culture and language being interwoven, language is instrumental to that effect. Therefore, she believes we should all work for promotion of Urdu not only in Adelaide but across Australia as well as other parts of the globe where Pakistani diaspora reside.

Her passion for Urdu has led her into joining PALF and accepting the responsibility to work shoulder to shoulder with other office bearers of the Pakistan-Australia Literary Forum (PALF) Inc.

beS.F. Gilani

SF Gilani is an educator who is currently working in the Department for Education and Child Development. She attained a Masters in Language and Literature as well as a degree in Education from University of the Punjab and University of Adelaide respectively. Her teaching career commenced at the Jamia-tul-Binnat Degree College, Gujranwala. Subsequently, she moved to Doha, Qatar and worked as a secondary school teacher at Pakistan Education Centre (PEC). She was appointed headmistress for her final four years before resigning and immigrating to Australia.

Throughout her tenure at PEC, she was heavily engaged in organizing literary events such as educational workshops, seminars and conferences. This is accentuated by her role as the secretary of a literary society, Bazm-e-Sukhan. On this platform, she was able to participate and successfully promote Urdu poetry and prose.

Along with her strong interest for literature, Ms. Gilani has a passion for horticulture. This is reflected by her leadership in taking PEC to three consecutive annual trophies in the QGPC flower and vegetable show.

Ms. Gilani is the author of two Urdu books, Urdu Poetry in the Twentieth Century and The Study of Akbar and Hali. Her core ideology strongly advocates for literature for purpose rather than literature without a meaningful basis. Further, she wholeheartedly believes in the unity of a nation under one flag for the purpose of harmony and peace as opposed to divisions amongst sects leading to the propagation of sectarianism.

Lastly, she has an inherent desire to promote Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, in Australia and believes that she can achieve this goal by being actively involved in the Pakistan-Australia Literary Forum Inc.

bDr Ghulam Jilani

Dr. Ghulam Jilani is a General Practitioner by profession. He graduated in medicine from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad in 1989 and is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).Outside the domain of medicine, Dr Jilani has always maintained aflair for Urdu literature since he was a student in Pakistan. He is astrong proponent of advancement of Urdu language and maintenance of linguistic and cultural continuity amongst Pakistani diaspora in Australia. He believes one should stay true to one’s roots and one should not lose sight of where one started.He also advocates that all children of Pakistan parents must learn Urdu so as to be comfortable to communicate in Urdu with others when they visit Pakistan.

Culture and language are intertwined and without knowing the language one cannot maintain one’s cultural identity. Australia being a multicultural society provides ample opportunities to the migrants to observe,introduce and promote their cultures and literature in a bid to their integration in this society on one hand and maintaining their cultural and linguistic identities on the other. Pakistani literature is rich and remarkable and needs to be introduced to the world in general and Pakistani children living outside Pakistan in particular.He hopes that this forum will go a long way in advancing and promoting Pakistani language,literature and culture, globally in the years to come.

aR.M. Afzal Razvi

Afzal is a renowned educationist and prose writer. His social and literary journey began in the year 1984 with the first publication in the Daily Imrooz. In the same year, he was elected as a chairman of Young Thinkers Association International (YTAI) – an international organisation of young people. Consequently, he was elected unopposed for three consecutive terms. Afzal’s services being the chairman of YTAI can be seen in the newspapers of that time. From the platform of YTAI, he issued a weekly newspaper Voice of Thinkers and a monthly literary magazine Dastak and wrote the editorials of both publications as the chief editor.

In this capacity, several conferences were organised where prominent literary and social dignitaries not only addressed the moto and services of YTAI but also commended its great cause (peace and relations, struggle against illegitimate dowry and drugs). Further, Afzal had the opportunity to travel across the country as the chairman of the association. This provided him with first-hand experience of the difficulties faced by young people at that time. Throughout this period, he delivered several presidential addresses in as many conferences across the country.

As a student, Afzal represented his educational institutions (Government College Lahore & University of the Punjab) on many occasions as a rhetorician in speech and debating competitions. His innate tendencies to thrive as a public speaker allowed him to win many prizes to put the name of these institutions on top.

In the year 1987, Afzal presented his first paper Allama Iqbal ke Falsafa-i-Khudi ke Aham Nakaat (the significant points of Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s Philosophy of Self). In the following year, he compiled the papers written by Sheikh Abdul Qadir – a prominent scholar and an intimate friend of Allama Iqbal. This compilation is now ready for publication. Further, he wrote another paper on Sheikh Abdul Qadir under the title of Sheikh Abdul Qadir per aik Taerana Nazer (An overview of the life and works of Sheikh Abdul Qadir). Subsequently, he was invited as an honorary guest in a TV show representing the youth of Pakistan.

In 1993, Afzal was appointed as a lecturer at the Pakistan Education Centre Doha-Qatar (PEC). He continued to develop his literary activities through newspapers and other publications. Due to the closure of Daily Imrooz and Daily Mashraq, he began writing reports for Daily Nawa-i-Waqt. In this respect, his paper on Hameed Nizami Late and other reports were readily published for several years.

At PEC, he organised Iqbal Day in order to commemorate the extraordinary life of Allama Iqbal. Consequently, a literary society known as Baz-i-Sukhan was established and he was honoured as its first president. Many conferences were held under this society in which Afzal presented papers on Allama Iqbal and other Urdu literary personalities. Further, under the banner of a well-renowned literary society Bazm-i-Khial-o-Fun, Afzal presented papers on several prominent prose writers including Mushtaq Yousafi, Saadat Hasan Manto and Qurat-ul-Ain Haider as well as poets like Noon Meem Rashid, Majeed Amjad, Ahmad Faraz, Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi and Baba Bulleh Shah. The publication of an annual literary magazine Safeena including its editorial was another achievement within this period.

In 2001, the wings of destiny permanently brought him to Adelaide from Doha. Despite this drastic change, his passion for literature continued to grow – reigniting his pursuit of research on Allama Iqbal’s poetry. Afzal’s two papers Allama Iqbal ka falsfa-i-khudi (Allama Iqbal’s doctrine of self) and Allama Iqbal ka nazria-i-taqdeer (Allama Iqbal’s concept of destiny) were also published in Australian Urdu newspaper Pukaar.

Furthermore, his areas of expertise has expanded into the fields of science, maths and history. In order to achieve this, he attained a Master of Arts in Modern History (Macquarie University), Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (University of Adelaide) and Professional Certificates in Mathematics and Science (Physics) [University of Adelaide].

Since arriving in Adelaide, Afzal always felt deprived of literary activities as he couldn’t find an adequate platform to promote Urdu language. It is therefore, he founded Pakistan-Australia Literary Forum (PALF) Inc. keeping in mind the words of Baba-e-Urdu (Father of Urdu Language) Molvi Abdul Haque: if a language perishes, the culture that it represents will also perish. Therefore, in order for one’s culture to thrive, we must keep the respective language alive.

cZaki Khan

As a Secretary General of Pakistan-Australia Literary Forum ( PALF ) Zaki holds key responsibilities in promoting the PALF’s platform for Urdu language. Mr. Zaki Khan was born and raised in the port city of Karachi-Pakistan. He possess education in Information Technology as well as Business Management and embraces an extensive experience in this discipline. He has an exceptional concentration in the promotion of Urdu language and literature as this portrays the culture of Pakistan.

Zaki believes that if we as Pakistani want to keep and alive our culture we have to promote our language passionately because impact of language and culture in the learning and education of young children is very profound.
Therefore, Mr. Khan’s reasons for joining Pakistan-Australia Literary Forum (PALF) Inc. are clearly envisioned through the belief that promoting Urdu language is a gateway for understanding Pakistani culture; particularly for the youth.

Since he is a very strong advocate of Urdu language consequently he has shown this by involving himself in the activities of Pakistan-Australia Literary Forum (PALF) Inc.