Ahmad Bashir was a writer, journalist, intellectual and film director from Pakistan.
11 Facts About Ahmad Bashir
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Ahmad Bashir was a close friend of Urdu writers Mumtaz Mufti and Ibn-e-Insha.
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Ahmad Bashir was born in Eminabad near Gujranwala, on 24 March 1923.
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Ahmad Bashir received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Srinagar and shifted to Bombay for a career in acting but soon started writing for film magazines.
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Ahmad Bashir worked as a sub-editor at Imroze newspaper where he introduced feature writing for the first time in Urdu press.
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Ahmad Bashir obtained training in film direction from Hollywood on state scholarship.
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Ahmad Bashir resigned after General Zia-ul-Haq imposed martial law in the country in 1977.
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Ahmad Bashir faced bitter hardships during this period in which he was never allowed to write columns in newspapers.
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Ahmad Bashir wrote an autobiographical novel Dil Bhatkey Ga.
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In 1969, Ahmad Bashir directed and produced an Urdu film, Neela Parbat.
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Ahmad Bashir died in Lahore of liver cancer on 25 December 2004 at age 81.