Life
He attended Sherwood College, Naini Tal. He was associated with the Jang Group's daily The News International, in Karachi for the past many years. From 1983 to 1988, he wrote a column for The Star Weekend; beginning in 1989, he wrote for The News.
Though a well-known poet, his journalistic job had dominated his poetry for the last several years.
Kaleem Omar died of heart failure.
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