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Filmmaker · Pakistan

A. J. Kardar

Died in 2002

Akhtar J. Kardar, known as A. J. Kardar, from an old Lahore family, was born on 25 November 1926. A cousin of the cricketer Abdul Hafeez Kardar, he was related to the filmmaker A. R. Kardar, whose brother he was (his first cousin according to Dawn). After serving in the navy, he studied cinema in London. He made mainly documentaries, several of them with Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and worked in the nineteen-seventies for the Pakistani public film body. He died in London on 14 February 2002.

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