Career
Azmi Haq served as an Additional Federal Secretary and consultant to the former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Haq has also worked with Pakistan"s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Between 2006 and 2008, Haq served as Executive Director of Strategic Communications and Outreach for Ontario’s former Deputy Premier, the Honourable George Smitherman.
Haq is a staunch commentator on Pakistani politics and often publishes opinion pieces for Pakistan"s leading news daily The Nation.
Haq has also played leading roles in numerous television series for Pakistan Television Corporation, and created shows for Showcase and the Canadian Broadcasting Company. He is working on a feature screenplay, The Red Bazaar. In February 2012, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif appointed Haq as head of his Strategic Media Committee
Haq is the Executive Producer of Salon Camden, an urban cultural project that provides an interactive space for citizens to come together over dinner and wine to share opinions and ideas about the city"s changing urban landscape.
Salon Camden is one of a growing number of salons being held throughout North America. Salon Camden also brings youth and academics together through the Camden File Project to discuss pressing urban issues.
The first Camden File Project salon was held in 2010 in collaboration with National Organization for Women Magazine on the topic "Streets of Toronto: Who"s Space is it Anyway?" Salon Camden also launched a series of global salons in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saint St. Petersburg, Russia, and Tokyo, Japan.
Azmi Haq was appointed as a Toronto Ambassador for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Acting
Pakistan Television. = Lead roles Lazawaal (1983)
Aab-o-Daana (1985)
RAAT (1988)
Piyaas (1989)
Khwahish (1990)
= Long plays/tele-movies Leikin (tele-movie/long play) (1994)
Rustom aur Sauraab" (1994)
Umeed-e-Bahaar (tele-movie/long play) (1990)
Eik Minute (1993)
Ehsaan (1996)
Screen writing
= Feature films East of Yonge (Telefilm Canada/Harold Greenberg Fund)
The Red Bazaar (Roohijee Films Toronto)
= Television series Spicy Fusion (Showcase - Telefilm Canada) 2005
Double Fare (six episode television mini-series)
Yaar (six episode television mini-series)
The Regency (Canadian Broadcasting Company)
Absolutely Normal (Canadian Broadcasting Company)
"Ontario"s South Asian Transnationals: Unlocking the Potential of an Untapped Resource", Ontario Working Paper Series, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto
"A Rocky Road Ahead", The Nation, Pakistan
"A Political Hiccup", The Nation, Pakistan.