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On 19 April 1970, Imtiaz Ali Taj was murdered while asleep in his bed by unknown assassins. His wife, Hijab Imitiaz Ali, was seriously wounded, when she tried to rescue him. [2] [5] [4] Hijab (1908–1999) was not only herself a well-known Urdu poet and writer, but also had the distinction of being the first Muslim woman pilot of India, in 1936 ...
Kazi Abdul Jaleel (Sindhi: قاضي عبدالجليل; born 1936 in Rohri), popularly known as Amar Jaleel, is a Sindhi fiction writer and a columnist [1] whose columns appear in various Sindhi, Urdu and English-language dailies of Pakistan.
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Iftikhar Arif was born on 21 March 1944 and attended the University of Lucknow, then studied journalism at New York University. [4] He then migrated to Karachi, Pakistan, where he was a newscaster for Radio Pakistan. [4]
Umrao Jaan Ada (Urdu: اُمراؤ جان ادا) is an Urdu novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa (1857–1931), first published in 1899. [1] It is considered the first Urdu novel by many [2] and tells the story of a tawaif and poet by the same name from 19th century Lucknow, as recounted by her to the author.
Devta (Urdu: دیوتا deotā, "deity") is a serialized fantasy thriller novel written in the Urdu language by Mohiuddin Nawab. [1] It was published monthly for 33 years in the Pakistani magazine Suspense Digest from February 1977 to January 2010. Devta is the fictional autobiography of Farhad Ali Taimoor, a man who gained telepathic powers. [2]
In 1997, he recited his own poems for Kaifiyaat, an audio book on his collected works. Kaifi Aur Mein , a play based on his life, his works and the memoir of his wife, Shaukat Azmi – Yadon Ki Rahguzar (Down Memory Lane), was written and performed by Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi , and performed in India as well as abroad in 2006. [ 20 ]
Ghulam Abbas has also written stories, plays and poems for children, his main field is fiction. He has a very high position in modern Urdu fiction. He takes the plot of the fiction from around him and writes it so skillfully that the reader gets lost in its details. And is shocked at the end of it. Their characters belong to the real world.