Aqeel Abbas Jafari


Aqeel Abbas Jafri , is a Pakistani writer, poet and architect and chief editor of Urdu Dictionary Board in Pakistan.

Early life and career

Aqeel Abbas Jafri was born in Karachi on 10 August 1957. One of his major achievements in his life so far is compiling and writing a book called Pakistan Chronicle that was published in 2010 after he spent 20 years working on it.
His work Pakistan Chronicle has old hard-to-find photographs and accounts of historic events from 14 August 1947, to 31 March 2010. This book reads like a fact-sheet on Pakistani events with over 4000 pictures on its 1,080 pages.