About Naseem Hijazi
Lived 1914 – 1996 (aged 81). Naseem Hijazi was a Pakistani writer and novelist.
Sharif Hussain (Urdu: ), who used the pseudonym Nasīm Hijāzī (Urdu: , commonly transliterated as Naseem Hijazi or Nasim Hijazi) (19 May 1914 – 2 March 1996), was an Urdu novelist and journalist.
Biography Early life Sharif Hussain was born on 19 May 1914 in an Arain family in the village of Sujaanpur, near the town of Dhariwal, in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab, in pre-partition India.
Journalism He began his career as a journalist with an Urdu-language newspaper, Daily Hayat, went on to work for Daily Zamana in Karachi, On 7 November 1963, under Ayub Khan's federal regime, Kohistan was banned for three months for publishing the views of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, a political party opposed to Khan's regime, and Hussain was arrested. Kaleesa Aur Aag, and Andheri Raat Ke Musafir describe the period of the Spanish Reconquista.
Death Hussain died on 2 March 1996, at the age of 81, in Rawalpindi.
Awards and recognition Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 1992
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