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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, Altaf Fatima, Anis Nagi, Ashfaq Ahmed, Ashraf Shad, Azhar Abidi, Bapsi Sidhwa, Fatima Surayya Bajia, H. M. Naqvi, Ibn-e-Safi, Idris Azad, Ishtiaq Ahmad (fiction writer), Kamila Shamsie, Mazhar Abro, Mazhar ul Islam, Mirza Ather Baig, Mohsin Hamid, Muhammad Asim Butt, Muhammad Mansha Yaad, Mumtaz Mufti, Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Nadeem Aslam, Nadya A.R., Obaidullah Baig, Quraish Pur, Shaukat Siddiqui, Shaukat Thanvi, Tariq Ismail Sagar, Uzma Aslam Khan, Zulfikar Ghose, Zulfiqar Gilani. Excerpt: Ibn-e-Safi (also spelled as Ibne Safi) (Urdu: ابنِ صفی) was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad (Urdu: اسرار احمد), a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. The word Ibn-e-Safi is an Arabian expression which literally means Son of Safi, where the word Safi means chaste or righteous. He wrote from the 1940s in India, and later Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947. His main works were the 125-book series Jasoosi Dunya (The Spy World) and the 120-book Imran Series, with a small canon of satirical works and poetry. His novels were characterized by a blend of mystery, adventure, suspense, violence, romance and comedy, achieving massive popularity across a broad readership in South Asia. Ibne Safi was born on July 26, 1928 in the town 'Nara' of district Allahabad, India. His father's name was Safiullah and mother's name was Naziran Bibi. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Aligarh Muslim University. In 1948, he started his first job at 'Nikhat Publications' as an Editor in the poetry department. His initial works date back to the early 1940s, when he wrote from India. After the partition of Indian and Pakistan in 1947, he began writing novels in the early 1950s while working as a secondary school teacher and...