Mohammad Khalid Akhtar

Muhammad Khalid Akhtar was born in 1920 to a family of academics in Bahawalpur. He was an engineer by trade before he started writing in his early 20s. Several of the stories, articles, and travel written by Khalid Akhtar were published in the Urdu journal Sawera. One of his most well-known works, Love in Chakiwara and Chakiwara mein Visaal, was published in 1964 and received the Adamjee Literary Prize. In 2002, Khalid Akhtar passed away in Karachi. Maloomati Qaeda was the title of a collection of funny pieces by Akhtar that appeared in literary journals in the 1950s. In his collection Khoya Hua Ufaq (The Lost Horizon), which included two essays from a series, Akhtar wrote honestly about the various trends, behaviors, and beliefs in society and about people.

He also adopted a new approach to minimize the damage caused by humor and provided opportunities for thinking and reflection in a way that would be taught to children. Khalid Sahab did not obtain the recognition he deserved during his lifetime, which was unfortunate for many Urdu literature fans who may have discovered his work sooner. The Oxford university press Series Editor Ajmal Kamal deserves praise for making the work available in a standard text so that readers can now connect with this rich and varied body of work. Khalid Sahab was always in the prime of life. His most recent work, passages from a travel journal to Iran, Turkey, and Greece, was recently published in the literary journal Tehrir. This great author was only known to a small circle of readers until his death, and few people in this generation have heard of him.