One should live for the Future, not in the past. What I have achieved & failed to achieve is history. Real challenge lies in TOMORROW This is what I want IK (once my friend now my leader) to remember every next moment. May Allah give him long life. He is Pakistan’s Future.
16 April, 2020
I remember a saying hoisted behind the chair of Enayatullh Sb my mentor: THERE IS NO STANDSTILL IN THE NEWSPAPERS. THEY EITHER PROGRESS OR DIE Lord Armstrong Same, I am afraid, is true about Political Parties. PPP is a classical example. The party has been in progressive decline.
15 April, 2020
Professor Wasti once affectionately lectured me: AKBAR I AM WORRIED ABOUT YOU. You have command on both languages. But even if you end up as Manto you will die of hunger &drinking. So don’t take your writing skills seriously. Translate your talent into performance(as IK has done)
15 April, 2020
I have run into a cassette that houses an hour-long interview with BB (on Aug 22,90))At the end of which she said : Will you work for me? I replied Do you know Madam I wrote Jhoot ka Peghambar? She replied”I do. I got you investigated. You have amazing profile” It is all recorded
15 April, 2020
It is true I never took my writings serously. Years back when the -then COAS Gen Abdul Waheed Khan wrote me a letter about MEIN WAZEER I AZAM NAHEEN BANOON GI, I was caught pleasantly by disbelief. “It is the most absorbing novel I have read for a long time. ” he had written
16 April, 2020
About Mein Wazeer I AZAM Naheen Banoon Gee, the famous poet and man of letters Syed Iftikhar Arif said to me “Do you know, you have written a novel better than many I have read?” “Have I? My God! What a revelation! ” I am better known for 3 Ms Mashriq Mussawar Midas What a pity!
16 April, 2020
