Waris Mir (22 November 1938 – 9 July 1987) was a Pakistani journalist, intellectual, writer and academic known for his struggle to uphold the cause of democracy and press freedom.
[1] Waris completed his secondary school education at Murray College in Sialkot, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
He was appointed Chairman of the Mass Communication Department in the University of the Punjab where he taught for over 20 years while at the same time writing articles and columns in Urdu newspapers of the country.
[4] Despite facing censorship snipping, threats, mental torture and vandalism, he stood his ground firm against all odds, upholding his principled stance of opposing dictatorship and backing democracy and freedom of expression.
The books authored by Mir in Urdu included Hurriyat-e-Fikar kai Mujahid (The warriors of the intellectual freedom), Kaya Aurat Aadhi Hai (Is woman half the human?