Karachi in the 1950s was not only a city under construction; it was a city learning how to read. The years following Partition brought millions of migrants, anxieties and uncertainties to the port ...
Watch out for Ibne Safi. He is all set to strike again. A popular favourite and an unsurpassed phenomenon in Urdu, the master of crime and thrills is now reaching out to a new audience in a new ...
On the morning of May 19, 2009, I visited the graveyard of Paposhnagar, Karachi to offer prayers at the grave of great mystery writer of Udru literature Ibne Safi (Asrar Ahmed) who, for decades, had ...
Ibne Safi wrote impeccable, accurate, authentic, modern, industrial-age Urdu proving that it can be done while following all the rules of the language. He standardized Urdu to a level that excerpts ...
KARACHI: So often it comes to be that death defines life. Amanat Ali’s swan song was Ibne Insha’s Inshaji Utho, the ghazal that some said was beset by a curse; the ghazal that took lives. Although not ...
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