[2] Subsequently, in 1988, he became the first Chairman of the PTV who was not a bureaucrat as all earlier chairmen were there because of their being federal information secretaries.
Aslam Azhar was born in Lahore as a son of a government servant during the British Raj.
He studied law at Cambridge University and later worked for the Burmah Oil Company.
He convinced the renowned writers Ashfaq Ahmed and Anwar Sajjad to write for television.
[1][5] In 2016, one of the major English-language Pakistani newspaper commented, "He was one of the founding fathers of Pakistan Television (PTV) – the title not merely an empty slogan.
"[5] Another Pakistani veteran bureaucrat Roedad Khan said, 'I called Aslam Azhar, who was general manager at the time, and said I don't know much about television but I want to learn.