Ashfaq Ahmed was an author,
writer, supporter, scholarly and mystic from Pakistan. Ashfaq Ahmed composed
more than twenty books in Urdu. His works included books, short stories and
plays for TV and radio.
Early Life:
Ashfaq Ahmed was regarded in
Firozpur British India, on 22 August 1925. He got his initial training in his
local locale of Muktsar. In the blink of an eye before freedom in 1947, he
relocated to Pakistan and settled in Lahore, Punjab. He finished his Masters in
Urdu writing from Government College Lahore. Bano Qudsia, his wife and friendly
in Urdu artistic rounds, was his schoolmate at Government College.
Education:
After Partition, when Ashfaq
Ahmed landed at the Walton evacuee camp with a large number of different
transients, he used to make declarations on a bull horn all day and all night.
Later, he landed a position in Radio Azad Kashmir, which was made on a truck
that used to drive around in distinctive portions of Kashmir. Then he got
lectureship at Dayal Singh College, Lahore for two years. After, he went to
Rome and join Radio Rome as a Urdu reporter. He additionally used to educate
Urdu at Rome College. Amid his stay in Europe, he got confirmations in the
Italian and French dialects from the University of Rome and University of
Grenoble, France. He likewise earned an exceptional preparing certificate in
radio television from New York University.
Career:
He began composing stories in his
youth, which were distributed in Phool magazine. In the wake of coming back to
Pakistan from Europe, he took out his own particular month to month scholarly
magazine, Dastaango, and joined Radio Pakistan as a script journalist. He was
made supervisor of the prominent Urdu week after week, Lail-o-Nahar [day and
Night], set up of acclaimed artist Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum by the
Government of Pakistan.
In 1962, Ashfaq Ahmed began his
prominent radio project, Talqeen Shah which made him monstrously mainstream
among the individuals in towns and towns. He was delegated executive of the
Markazi Urdu Board and which was later renamed as Urdu Science Board. He stayed
with the board until 1979. He additionally served as guide in the Education
Ministry amid Zia-ul-Haq's administration. In the 60s, he created a peculiarity
film, Dhoop aur Saie, which was not exceptionally fruitful in the cinema world.
Later Years and Death:
Other than his identity as an
extraordinary writer of noteworthy and praiseworthy books, Ashfaq Ahmed, in his
later years of life, was significantly slanted towards Sufism. His nearby
relationship with Qudrat Ullah Shahab and Mumtaz Mufti was likewise ascribed
for this inclination. He used to show up in a get together with his fans in PTV
program Baittakh and Zaviya where he gave quick however fulfilling reactions to
every single inquiry postured by the adolescent group of onlookers.
On 7 September 2004, Ashfaq Ahmed
kicked the bucket of pancreatic growth.