Education, Career in Academia and Pakistan Army
Omar joined the Pakistan Army in 1971 and left it at the rank of a captain in 1973 because of the military action in Baluchistan by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He then gained a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of Essex, and a M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Cambridge, before returning to Pakistan in 1979. From 1980-83 he taught economics at the University of the Punjab in Lahore. According to Sungi, Omar's popular efforts to promote progressive political thought among students instigated a physical attack on him by the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba. In 1983, General Zia-ul-Haq's repressive regime ordered Omar's dismissal from the Punjab University.
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