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Postscript: Iftikharuddin Babar

How did you get into printing?

Since school days, printing was somewhere in the mind as an option. I used to think printing & publishing as a provider of "food for thought". I have been involved in various activities in my college days - Editor of College Gazette and reporting for a newspaper etc. I came to Saudi Arabia and joined Al-Madina Newspaper in 1983 and "this is my career now".

What do you like most about your job?

Challenges, innovation, market dynamics, meeting new people and developing friendship.

What is the worst thing about your job?

Stress of meeting deadlines.

What would be your dream job?

To establish a printing museum of international repute.

What is your favourite phrase or saying?

Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy.

What superpower would you like to have?

My creator's blessings.

If you could change anything in the world, it would be.. Do farming - not arming.

What do you like about living in the region?

Peaceful environment to raise kids & smooth life pattern.

Who would you like to invite to a party?

People who make others life easy and share pains.

What is your most greatest luxury?

There is no limit for sky.

What is your greatest fear?

Hell.

Life is.....?

Life is beautiful but a complex blend of faith, love, emotions, hatred, pains and grief - live and let live.

 

Iftikharuddin Babar

 

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