Irshad Ahmed Haqqani (6 September 1928 – 24 January 2010) was a senior editor, veteran journalist and reputed column writer for the Jang Group of Newspapers.
But he and a group of senior scholars and ideologues led by Maulana Amin Ahsan Islahi left the party after developing differences with the party's founder Maulana Maududi over his policy of bringing about the Islamic revolution through the ballot.
Besides his popular daily column titled ‘Harf-e-Tamanna’, he remained well acclaimed among different schools of thoughts including scholars and politicians.
As a senior editor of the Daily Jang, he gave new trends to newspaper column writing in Pakistan.
[1][2][3] Pakistani luminaries attending his funeral included Senator Pervaiz Rasheed, former federal ministers Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Sartaj Aziz and many senior journalists and newspaper editors.