For disambiguation also see Ashfaq Ahmad, Ishfaq Ahmed and Ishfaq Ahmad

Ishfaq Ahmad

Ishfaq Ahmad , D.Sc., Minister of State, SI, HI, NI, FPAS, is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, and well-known educationist and academic from Pakistan...

Ashfaq Ahmed, PP

Pride of Performance

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, SI (Punjabi

Punjabi language

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: اشفاق احمد) (August 22, 1925 – September 7, 2004) was a distinguished writer

Writer

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, playwright

Playwright

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, broadcaster

Presenter

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, intellectual

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 and spiritualist from Pakistan

Pakistan

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. His prime qualities of heart and hand earned appreciations across the world. He was regarded by many as the best Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 Afsana

Afsana

Afsana may refer to:* A style of short story in Urdu literature*Afsana - a 1951 Bollywood film directed by Baldev Raj Chopra...

(short-story) writer after Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hassan Manto was a short story writer of the Urdu language. He is best known for his short stories, 'Bu' , 'Khol Do' , 'Thanda Gosht' , and his magnum opus, 'Toba Tek Singh'....

, Ismat Chughtai

Ismat Chughtai

Ismat Chughtai 1 was an eminent Urdu writer, known for her indomitable spirit and a fierce feminist ideology. She was considered the grand dame of Urdu fiction, as one of the four pillars of modern Urdu short story, the other three being Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander, and Rajinder Singh Bedi...

 and Krishan Chander

Krishan Chander

Krishan Chander was an Urdu and Hindi Afsaana Nigaar, or short story writer. He wrote mainly in Urdu, but was well-versed in Hindi and English....

 following the publication of his famous short-story Gaddarya [The Shepherd] in 1955.
Ahmed was born on 22 August 1925 in Firozpur

Firozpur

Firozpur is a city on the banks of the Sutlej River in Firozpur District, Punjab, India, founded by Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq , a Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq Dynasty who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388.The Manj Rajputs say the town was named after their chief, a Rajput of...

, British Punjab.