I remember

An old man used to say, “Mian! What they talk about, you know, they are money newspapers.

An old man used to say, “Mian! What they talk about, you know, they are money newspapers. ”Money newspaper became their saying, I asked them,“ Qiblah Buzurgwar! You give the example of "money newspaper", in fact, it was or is metaphorical.

He said, "Before the partition of India, we used to live in Delhi. A paisa newspaper was published. There was a picture of paisa on its tablet. It consisted of two large 8-column pages. Sometimes big news was six or seven columns. Two-column news and one column is all news. Mian Sahibzada, this was the newspaper of our youth. It cost 2 paise, then it had four large pages. Now the price of the newspaper is getting so high, the buyers of the newspaper are getting less and less.

I said, “Hazrat! What are inflation and inflation affects everything. Apart from petrol, diesel, crude oil, kerosene oil, food items become more expensive every three months. There are so many dummy magazines that are in the eye of the beholder." New Light" was an evening newspaper, not at noon but at 4 pm. Sometimes it was published very early, at three and a half o'clock, otherwise, it was tied at four o'clock in the evening. At that time, except for one large newspaper, all newspapers were printed on litho. The yellow litho paper on which the writing was made and after the plate was made the litho was printed on the printing machine.

Litho printing machines were installed on the Adam Khan Road drain near the lighthouse cinema. In the past, people used to walk by hand without electricity. A man would put the paper down, the handle would be turned downwards. There were also scribes in front of these printing presses, more wedding cards were written and printed on the machines in front of them. Later, small offset machines started rolling, then big machines started coming, now maybe no one knows Litho, no one will have seen it.

Before the Regal bus stop, there was an office of the daily Aghaz above "Cafe Jahan" which is still there. Kaleem Ashraf Kalimi and I used to come to the office of Aghaz newspaper from Pervez Mazhar. A pastor was also a friend of Kalimi. It would have been a great pleasure to have the column published there. The office of the daily Sadaqat was first in the Tibet Center. First, the editor was Nayyar Alvi and later the editors kept changing. 

There was a chief reporter who was just publishing a newspaper. Kaleem Ashraf Kaleemi was my teacher and I worked with him in truthfulness, especially in the wheel jam movement. Truthfulness published news prominently which made him very popular among the people. It was Bashir Ahmad Rana's newspaper and later moved to a building on Kamal Ataturk Road.

On January 2, 1970, I published a collection of "Mips International". It was an international magazine with four pages in Urdu in addition to English. It went to every bookstall in Karachi and became very popular. On McLeod Road, on the other hand, there were newspaper offices that are still there. Maqsood Yousefi was in the daily announcement. I used to go to meet Kalimi. I have published many articles and now the announcement has stopped. On the way to Elander Road, in the middle is the daily Aman on the right-hand side. There were many meetings with Habib Sahib who reported the news and published it.

There is a "Khairabad Tea Shop" on the corner coming from there. This was an Iranian hotel where we often drank tea and ate samosas. The samosas here used to be big, full of peas, this restaurant is still there, most of the journalists have been coming to this restaurant for decades. On the first floor of Atmaram Pritam Das Road was the office of "Haft Roza Chamanistan". It was a weekly film and Laiq Qureshi was its editor and publisher. It also included my article, but later began to write in response to letters, which increased the magazine's sales.

Nayyar Alvi was an important person in the newspaper in which the meeting took place. He was also the editor in the early days. I went to him and said, "From today you will work under me on the city page. I continued to work under him in "Anjam". It did not last long but closed within a month and a half.

Since it was the opposite of a big newspaper, a very good newspaper was coming out and the people liked it more, so such tactics were used which led to the ban. Many people from the big newspaper came to it. One night, the news came that the newspaper would no longer be published. I went to Nayyar Alvi Sahib and said, "No worries, it will be published again in a couple of days." Going for a week regularly, gradually the number of people decreased, I remember Iqbal Tabassum, I always found him smiling, I found him sincere, sympathetic. Eventually, I also quit because the newspaper was not being published, later he became the editor of Nawa-e-Waqt Karachi.

Mushir Ahmad Khan was the owner of Mushir Printing Press. All the offset machines were installed. My collection of hobbies "Mips International" was published in his press but now that press is gone. Syed Sardar Ahmed, who wrote the Urdu pages of Mips International, now owns a printing press.

Nayyar Alvi was the first editor of the daily Express Karachi, a big name in journalism. Some people love their work more than themselves. Nayyar Alvi was one of them and I learned this from them. Besides, I learned editorial and making news headlines.