On being asked, he told me that an advertiser had invited applications, care of a post box, for someone who knew English, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Pushto and Punjabi.

[1] One of Bukhari's British students at Shimla was later posted as Assistant District Commissioner to the then governor of Punjab.

A. Bukhari's talents blossomed when the British decided to run the radio in a professional manner and launched a broadcasting station in Delhi.

Sir Malcolm Darling recruited Bukhari on the recommendation of the controller of broadcasting for All India Radio, Lionel Fielden, to set up the Indian section of the Eastern Service.

Initially Bukhari and his team only contributed a weekly news report and an occasional cultural programme.

Bukhari was then appointed at the newly established AIR (Akashvani (radio broadcaster)) Delhi station as programme director.

There were many people at Bombay radio station he helped like the film playback singers, G. M. Durrani, Suraiya etc.

[5] In 1967, he served as the first general manager of PTV-Karachi Center (Pakistan Television Corporation) as it started broadcasting in the city of Karachi.

Nasrullah Khan in his book Kya Qafal Jata Hai has described how Bukhari would sit with singers, guide them, compose new tunes and would even sing with them.

[7] A hard taskmaster and a man who had been immersed in culture and literature, Bukhari did not tolerate slights in broadcasting and especially emphasized the correct Urdu pronunciation.

During Bukhari's tenure, the radio station was a place frequented by intellectuals, writers, musicians, poets and scholars.

He turned Radio Pakistan into an institution where raw hands got their early training and later went ahead in search of greener pastures.