Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi

Early life and education Qasmi was born on November 20, 1916, in the village of Anga in Khushab, Punjab, British India, into an Awan family. He belonged to a family of Sufi pirs or spiritual saints.

He graduated from a high school in Campbellpur in 1931, (now renamed Attock city in Pakistan), around the time when he wrote his first poem, he studied at Government College Attock. Later he studied at Sadiq Egerton College in Bahawalpur. He graduated from the University of Punjab, Lahore in 1935. In 1939 he began to work as sub-inspector in the Excise Department but resigned in 1942 as it didn't fit with his temperament.

Active in the Pakistan Movement, he joined the Punjab Muslim League.

Literary career Qasmi edited several prominent literary journals, including Phool, Tehzeeb-i-Niswaan, Adab-i-Lateef, Savera, Naqoosh, and his own journal, Funoon. "The letters also reveal that Qasmi had a narcissistic personality and an inflated ego when it came to his contemporaries. He consciously or unconsciously tried to belittle Faiz, though without much effect." Chaupaal (1939)