1. Mohammad Ibrahim Baig, known by his pen name Khatir Ghaznavi; romanized: Khatir Ghaznavi, was a Pakistani multilingual writer, poet, playwright, research scholar, and director of Pakistan Academy of Letters.
23 Facts About Khatir Ghaznavi
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Khatir Ghaznavi wrote about forty-five to fifty books, including poems and children's books in Urdu, Hindko and Pashto languages throughout his life, though most of his literary work appears published in Urdu and Hindko.
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Khatir Ghaznavi is sometimes referred to as researcher, linguist, columnist, educationist, and is credited for conducting an extensive research on Hindko and Urdu literature.
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Khatir Ghaznavi is often recognized one of the prominent writers in Pashto literatures.
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Khatir Ghaznavi did his primary schooling in Bannu and secondary education in Peshawar, and later attended the University of Peshawar in 1958 from where he did his master's degree in Urdu.
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Khatir Ghaznavi was then promoted to professor and later chairman.
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Khatir Ghaznavi did diploma in foreign languages such as Malay and later Chinese language which he obtained in 1965.
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Khatir Ghaznavi learnt local and foreign spoken languages, including Urdu, Pashto, Hindko, English, Persian, Chinese, Malay and Russian languages, which he used throughout his career, however he primarily used local ones while writing books.
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Khatir Ghaznavi served director of a research foundation Pakistan Academy of Letters at Islamabad where he was involved in scholarly research with national academy.
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Khatir Ghaznavi was actively involved with literary organizations and tertiary institutions and served vice president of the Progressive Writers' Association for North-West Frontier Province and chairperson of the University of Peshawar for Urdu department.
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Khatir Ghaznavi started his career as a clerk at All India Radio, and was given Radio producer and then programme organizer designation during his seven years service.
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Khatir Ghaznavi taught abroad and went to Malaysia, where he was assigned to write a "dictionary of common words" in specified languages such as Urdu and Malay.
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Khatir Ghaznavi served head of the department at the University of Malaya for Pakistan studies and Urdu department.
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Khatir Ghaznavi is credited for introducing the Department of Chinese at the University of Peshawar.
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Khatir Ghaznavi wrote his first novel at the time when he was studying in a school.
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Khatir Ghaznavi is credited for translating Khushal Khattak's poetry into Urdu or Hindko.
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Khatir Ghaznavi wrote a book on Hindko that covers geography and its history.
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Khatir Ghaznavi played a significant role in Urdu language development besides Pashto and Hindko.
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Khatir Ghaznavi's contribution was recognized by the government on national level.
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Khatir Ghaznavi wrote a book titled Urdu Zaban Ka Makhaz Hindko, which was later published in 2003 by the National Language Authority, claimed both Urdu and Hindi languages are etymologically associated with Hindko as their source or origin.
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Khatir Ghaznavi's dialectical research was declined by its native speakers citing "Hindko language is a dialect of western Punjabi", making it geographically a distinct one.
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Khatir Ghaznavi spent his last days in extreme difficult situation due to his aging, financial crisis, and eventually with deteriorated health.
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Khatir Ghaznavi was suffering from multiple ailments and was admitted to a hospital in Karachi for medical treatment and died there on 7 July 2008.