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Jafri was an excellent cricketer, and was a member
of the College Cricket team. He also played on
behalf of CCP during the ICCST games of 1968, and
thus became a member of the
Famous Forties
that year.
Right after Petaro, Jafri joined UET Lahore and
graduated as a Mechanical Engineer in 1975. He
moved to the USA in 1981 and completed his MBA
from University of Central Oklahoma in 1983.
He then moved to NY City and studied theater at
H.B. Studios there. During that period, he worked
as a cab driver on the dangerous roads of NY to
make his two ends meet.
Jafri kept up with his studies throughout. Later
on, he also acquired an M.A. degree in Speech
Communications from the University of Texas, Pan
Am in 1996. Subsequently, he got his Ph.D. in
Communications from University of Oklahoma at
Norman in 2003.
Soon after completing his Ph.D. in 2003, he joined
Davis & Elkins College in West Virginia as
Assistant Professor of Communication.
In 2007, Jafri's
book titled "Honour Killing - Dilemma, Ritual,
Understanding" was published by the Oxford
University Press. The OUP website describes the
contents of the book briefly in the following
words: "This book explores the various contexts in
which men commit honor killing in Pakistan, and
analyzes the discourses that deal with it. It
undertakes the task of understanding the possible
cultural, religious, historical and, increasingly,
political reasons that create the dilemma, the
exigency for men to kill a female member of their
own family." Columnist Khalid
Hasan wrote a detailed review of the book which
can be read online at
http://www.kashmirtimes.com/archive/0808/080823/opinion.htm.
Jafri moved back to Pakistan in 2009 to be closer
to his family.
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