Zulfiqar Halepoto

Zulfiqar Halepoto (Sindhi: ذوالفقار هاليپوٽو‎) an activist and author of Sindh, Pakistan was born on 27 September 1970 in village Umer Halepoto, Tando Muhammad Khan District, Sindh. He is author several books including travelogues and water environment.

Halepoto had got primary education and Matriculation from Government High School Goal Building, Hyderabad, intermediate from Modern college, University of Sindh, old campus and Master of Arts in History from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad in 1995. He done Master of Philosophy from Sindh Development Study Center (SDSC) University of Sindh in 2010.

He is engaged with leading English and Sindhi newspapers as free-lance columnist for the last two decades and writes a huge amount of articles, literary essays and columns. He has an account of 14 books on his part that includes his travelogues of India, Bangladesh and USA. He edited and compiled 4 books (in Sindhi, Urdu and English) on Benazir Bhutto- three books in the English language on social development and water conflicts including 'Sindh: Politics, People & Development and ‘Water: A Non-Traditional Human Security Paradigm’. He edited the entire journalistic work of the great poet of sub-continent Shaikh Ayaz. Book is published by culture department, Government of Sindh. He also edited selected English essay and columns of one of the renowned Punjabi linguist Dr Manzur Ejaz (living in Washington, D.C., US). Another book is also about a journalist in Sindh, titled 'Remembering A G Chandio (Journalist): An anthology (Sindhi)'. He most recent book is Revival of Khat Nawisee (letter writing), a collection of 25 letters in Sindhi/Urdu written to various literary and intellectuals personalities of the region.

He is author of a popular book 'Delhi Darshan', a travelogue of different cities of India. Author has covered his visits, conferences and meetings with various people, forums, groups, NGOs, think tanks, Indian writers, Sindhi diaspora, and meetings with India-based journalists and immigrant families. He used to host political talk shows on leading Sindhi channels Sindh TV and Mehran TV.

He is working as incharge Sindhi Media Monitoring Office of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf earlier he was Deputy Information Secretary for Sindh Province in PTI.