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Manto’s Birth Anniversary Observed On 11th May

Sana Mehmood

ISLAMABAD: The birth anniversary of Sa’adat Hasan Manto – renowned Urdu story, film, radio scriptwriter and journalist – was observed on Saturday (11th May). Manto was born in 1912 in a Muslim Kashmiri family of Paproudi village (Ludhiana) that settled in Amritsar. His father Khawaja Ghulam Hasan, a session judge, migrated to Lahore with family […]

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Manto died on 18th of Jan 1955

News Desk

KARACHI: Sa’adat Hasan Manto, who was born on 11th May, 1912 (in Paproudi Village, Ludhiana District of the Eastern Punjab, in a Muslim family) and died on 18th Jan 1955, produced the kind of bold chef-d’œuvres that many believe was meant for the people of next century. Manto dared to write about the taboos to expose the […]

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