The Walking Google – Obaid Ullah Baig

He was born in Rampur, India. His family decided to migrate to the city of lights – Karachi. He belonged to a well respected family.

Al-Mighty had granted him the art of knowledge, the style of delivering a message or a lecture. He had all what one would look up to. Theacquaintance of all most everything, regardless of religious, cultural, political, ethical, historical or economical – he had it all. One can rightly say an encyclopedia of his time. This personality is none other than Mr. Obaidullah Baig. He was one of the most finest and eminent scholar. Not just a scholar but was a media expert too.

His television career started in 1970`s era. He started an informative yet vivacious show called “Kasauti”. This was not done solely by Obaidullah, Iftikhar Arif one of the country’s geniuses joined hands. This was followed by Ghazi Salahuddin in 1990s. This continued till 21st century. In this century “Kasauti” shifted to a private Pakistani TV channel with the name of "Kasauti, Master Mind".The program was conducted by the original host of Kasauti, Quraish Pur.

One can say that Obaidullah Baig was enraged in learning the knowledge and to know in relation to the world in depth. His efforts did not in any case become weak. Day by day his knowledge increased. Where today we, the youth, hook on to “Google”,Baig was a “Walking Google” of his time.

He got married to Salma Baig, who was a well-known face of Pakistan television. His wife, Salma Baig, was hosting programs in the past and her participation in educational sector. This couple had three very talented daughters. Maryam Baig the eldest daughter is a visual artist and also a theatre actor, second daughter Fatima Adarsh is a wife of TV Actor Adarsh Ayaz and works in a private news channel as a news caster while the youngest daughter Amina Baig is an artist and also worked for The News International.

Due to his dedication towards Urdu Literature and Pakistani media he was awarded “Pride of Performance” on 14th August 2008.

We lost this personality on 22nd June 2012, of a sudden death. We pray that that Obaidullah Baig`s soul rest in peace.

We will miss you sir!

Written By: Tayyaba Khushi