Editing Azfar Rizvi

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'''Azfar Rizvi''' is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto Toronto]-based [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/documentary documentary] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/filmmaker filmmaker], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/journalist journalist], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_critic social critic] and interfaith [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/activist activist] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan Pakistan]i origin. The only journalist to reach Lus Puttian in the wake of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Kashmir_earthquake 2005 Kashmir earthquake], he shaped a series of efforts including documentaries ‘Hope Floats’<ref name="hf"></ref> and 'Earthquake Diaries’,<ref name="ed"></ref> radio shows, television appearances, and rehabilitation campaigns for a three-day children’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid Eid] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/carnival carnival]. 

The first English narrative on firefighters in Pakistan, his film ‘[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_58 Station 58],’ increased public awareness to the extent that Karachi’s mayor at the time, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Mustafa_Kamal Syed Mustafa Kamal], initiated a life insurance plan exclusively for the city’s heroes and their families. Widely recognized for ‘[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inevitable_Flight The Inevitable Flight],’ he garnered enough public interest to eventually convince the government against relocating the world’s largest bird sanctuary in Pakistan. He is also the first producer to ever secure permission, and broadcast a live show from Wagah, the only border connecting India and Pakistan by road.

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