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 ...

Ibne Safi, the pen name of Asrar Ahmad, was once described as “the only original writer in the subcontinent” by Agatha Christie and wrote 125 novels in his lifetime. The only secondary character that ...

Across the deserts, a whisper still lives, the name of a healer sent to ease human pain. He was called Ibne Maryam, and wherever he walked, suffering loosened its grip. The Gospels and the Holy Quran ...

This is the mantra by which Asrar Ahmed lived his life. Known worldwide by his pen name, Ibne Safi, he is one of the bestselling authors of all time in Pakistan. The country recognised his services a ...

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 ...