In 1997, he started his journalistic career as a special correspondent for Daily Ausaf, an Islamabad-based Urdu newspaper published in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
He is founder editor of Weekly Ghazwah, an Urdu newspaper once run by the Islamic charity and proselytization/preaching organization Jamaat-ud-Dawah, accused of being the front group for prime suspects of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
[1][2][3] This newspaper was banned in December 2008 when the Government of Pakistan outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawah, complying with the United Nations Security Council’s Taliban and Al Qaeda Sanction Committee’s decision to proscribe the charity.
In the past ten years, he contributed many articles on national, international, social and religious issues for different Urdu and English newspapers.
In 2012, the United States Department of the Treasury applied sanctions against Abdullah Muntazir, prohibiting US persons from engaging in transactions with him.