Shamim A Shamim, Kashmir’s Editor, Orator, Politician
Shamim Ahmed Shamim was one of Kashmir’s prominent journalist editors who was later in politics and was elected to the state assembly and the parliament. He edited Aina newspaper that was known for his satire and critique of contemporary Kashmir and politics. This earned him more friends than foes.
With the guests of the then Prime Minister Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad in Srinagar, Shamim A Shamim, as the Cultural Officer of the Jammu and Kashmir government. Photo Courtesy: Qurrat Ul Ain
“Strange are the ways of politicians: only a few years ago the Sheikh and Shamim were thick as thieves. Today they are sworn enemies, ever since the Sheikh nominated his wife as a National Conference MP and Shamim joined the Janata Party,” Sunil Sethi wrote in The India Today in February 1979. “Shamim has since been assaulting the chief minister and his family on charges of gross corruption in vitriolic articles in his Urdu newspaper