Ilyas Gadit

Ilyas Gadit
Native name	الياس گاڍيت
Born	1946
💼 Occupation	Journalist, editor, translator
📆 Years active	c. 1970s–
Known for	Editorship of Watan

Ilyas Gadit (born 1946) is a Pakistani journalist associated with the Gujarati language press in Karachi. He is known principally for being the former editor of Watan (also Vatan), one of two surviving Gujarati-language daily newspapers in Pakistan.

Career

Gadit has been associated with Gujarati-language journalism in Pakistan for several decades and served as editor of Watan for a number of years. Watan is a Karachi-based Gujarati-language daily founded in Bombay in 1942 by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and relocated to Karachi after the partition of India in 1947; it has continued in publication for over eight decades. Gadit has also worked as a writer and translator.

Watan continues to be published from offices on New Chali, Karachi, and is currently edited by Shahid Saati. The paper is one of only two Gujarati-language dailies remaining in Pakistan, the other being Daily Millat, founded in Karachi in 1948.

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