The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad.
This is the second and final part of my column in response to some observations made by readers on the series about resistance writing.One reader,...
In response to my eight-part series on resistance writing, the readers’ response was overwhelming. Most readers asked about the details of the...
The story by Zaheda Hina, 'Jismo Zaban ki Maut se Pehle' starts with a prisoner who has been stuffed in a drum and the drum is being beaten...
Dr Anwaar Ahmed has penned some of the best short stories in Urdu that are part of our resistance literature heritage. Coming from Multan, Dr Anwaar...
As mentioned in the previous part of this series, Afzal Tauseef was an indomitable fighter for democracy in Pakistan. She was born in 1936 in East...
Another valorous resistance writer was Akhtar Jamal who died in 2011 in Canada. She was a leading Urdu short-story writer and her books include,...
In 1982, Mazharul Islam published his collection of short stories 'Ghoron ke Shehar Mein Akela Aadmi' . It contained a short story titled 'Kandhey...
