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Muhammad Omar Iftikhar has over 500 articles to his name published in leading English-language newspapers and magazines of Pakistan ever since his writing career began on July 10, 2004. He is a regular contributor to print publications including Young World (Daily Dawn), US Magazine (The News), Pakistan Observer, Daily Times, South Asia Magazine among others and is a regular movie reviewer and critic at Express Tribune Blogs. He also contributed requested write-ups to Gulf News. Omar's writing genres include geopolitical and current affairs, technology, sports, personality development, social issues, and communication. He has worked as Assistant Editor for Slogan Magazine and South Asia Magazine. I have overlooked the content development process from developing and editing content to the publishing of each month's edition. While working in the digital media, Omar served as a key member of the Content Development and Strategy team at Symmetry Group, Pakistan's largest digital media agency. He was looking after the creative accounts and digital assets of major brands. Some of Omar's finest achievements include winning the third prize in The News International's US Magazine Short Story Writing Competition (2007) for his story 'One of a kind'; standing third in the US Consulate's Twitter Poetry Contest in May 2013, In February 2013, Oxford University Press, Pakistan published an anthology of 99 short stories titled, "Karachi: Our Stories in Our Words". Omar's short story, "The Dream" was part of this book, which was launched at the Karachi Literature Festival 2013. In May 2016, Omar's short story "Defying the Order" was chosen as one of the best short stories at 'The Stories Untold "- A Nationwide Theme Based Short Story Writing Competition 'organized by Daastan. Omar again featured at Daastan in January 2017 when his short story," The Diligent Game "was selected as one of the best stories in the second season. In November 2017, Omar Iftikhar was one of the winners from Pakistan at NANOWRIMO (National Novel Writing Month), a US-based, annual creative writing project. He completed writing 50, 000 words of his fantasy-adventure novel which he is set to release next year. This year, he is focusing on his debut novel, a science fiction novel set in modern-day Karachi.