Shafiq-ur-Rahman (Urdu: شفیق الرحمن) (9 November 1920 – 19
March 2000) was a Pakistani humorist and a short-story essayist of Urdu
dialect. He was a standout amongst the most famous authors of the Urdu talking
world. Like western Mark Twain and Stephen Leacock, he has given continuing
delight to his perusers. He was a medicinal specialist by calling, and served
in Pakistan Army. He additionally got Hilal-e-Imtiaz for his military and
regular citizen administrations. He has broadly been apprecitated by scholars
and faultfinders of Urdu writing. Rahman was conceived in a Panwar Rajput group
of Kalanaur, a residential community close Rohtak. He got his instruction in
Bahawalpur. He finished his MBBS from King Edward Medical College, Lahore in
1942, and post-graduation in tropical solution and general wellbeing from
Edinburgh, in 1952. Rahman started composing entertaining stories amid his
school days. His stories were distributed in a scholarly month to month
magazine Khayyam. His first book Kirneyn was finished before he joined the
therapeutic school and was distributed in 1938, while he was as yet a medicinal
understudy. His extraordinary characters incorporate Razia, Shaitaan, Hukoomat
Aapa, Maqsood Ghora, Buddy, Judge Sahab, Nannha and numerous different young
ladies including Sarwat, Kishwer, Sa'da, Azra Aapa, Nasreen, Akhtar, Ainak
etc.Rahman had three children, Attique, Kahlique and Ameen. He passed on 19
March 2000 in Rawalpindi. Rahman joined the Indian Army Medical Corps and
served at various war fronts amid the Second World War. After the autonomy of
Pakistan in 1947, he joined the Pakistan Army and inevitably rose to the rank
of general. He additionally filled in as executive of the Academy of Letters of
Pakistan from 1980 to 1985. Amid his residency, the Academy of Letters gained
another measurement as a noticeable scholarly organization of Pakistan. He kept
on composing till his passing in March 2000. Rahman's work added another
measurement to humor in Urdu writing. He made a world that was genuine with all
its delights, torments and anguish. It was a confirmation of life and of human
esteems: sympathy, empathy and regard. Indeed, even the apparently pointless
and minor circumstances had concealed implications that tested profound into
the human mind. His dialect was straightforward, unconstrained and expressive.
He was granted the Hilal-e-Imtiaz for his military and non military personnel
benefits after his demise on 23 March 2001.
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