Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas(Urdu: راشد منہاسb. 17 February 1951 – 20 August 1971) NH, was a military officer in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF). Minhas was the only PAF officer to receive the highest valour award, the Nishan-e-Haider. He was also the youngest person and the shortest-serving officer to have received this award. He is remembered for his death in 1971 in a jet trainer crash while struggling to regain the controls from a defecting pilot: Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman.
Ali Imran is a fictional character in various Urdu language detective novels written by Asrar Ahmed under the pseudonym of Ibn-e-Safi. He serves as the titular protagonist in the Imran Series novels. He is usually referred to only by his last name in the context of the novels.
Ibn-e-Safi was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad, a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. The word Ibn-e-Safi is an Arabic expression which literally means Son of Safi, where the word Safi means chaste or righteous. He wrote from the 1940s in India, and later Pakistan after the independence of British India in 1947.
Ali Imran is a fictional spymaster and the protagonist of the Imran Series of Urdu spy novels by the Pakistani author Ibn-e-Safi.
Jharna Basak is a Bangladeshi and Pakistani stage and film actress. Actor Waheed Murad introduced her to the Pakistani film industry by offering her a lead role in his film Samundar in 1968. Jharna remained active in Lollywood in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. She has been nominated for Nigar awards several times, winning it 13 times. She has appeared in over 180 films. She was a leading actress in the Pakistani film industry for 28 years.
Mazhar Kaleem was a Pakistani novelist chiefly known for his Imran Series novels, Urdu spy fiction written within Imran Series mythos created by Ibn-e-Safi.
The Imran series is a series of Urdu spy novels originally written by the Pakistani author Ibn-e-Safi and later continued by many writers, including Humayun Iqbal, MA Rahat, Ibn e Kaleem, S Qureshi, and Mazhar Kaleem. The important fictional characters appearing in the series are described here.
Mazhar is an Arabic male given name, meaning "light". It may refer to:
Umera Ahmad is a Pakistani author and screenwriter. She has received various awards including Best Writer Award in Lux Style Award for the drama serial Meri Zaat Zara-e-Benishan.
Seemab Akbarabadi born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui was an acclaimed Urdu poet from Pakistan.
The House of Fear is the first English translation of the Ibne Safi's much celebrated Urdu novel Khaufnaak Imaraat that was first published in 1955. It is published by Random House and translated by Bilal Tanweer. It also carries another novella Shootout at the Rocks. Both feature the stock character Imran, Ibne Safi, whose actual name was Asrar Narvi, wrote about 122 novels under this Imran Series. In the first story, the protagonist finds dead people in an empty house with three knife wounds each placed at exactly five inches. The hero who is considered an idiot by his secret-service colleagues solves the case in his own unique way between poetic recitations of Ghalib and praises of Indian film heroines. In the second story, a colonel called Zargham receives mysterious wooden animal-shaped toys, that we find later, are signature of Li Yu Ka, a two hundred years old brotherhood of deadly killers, and very soon the man is the thick of big trouble from which only the legendary Imran can be of any help.
Mere Humdum Mere Dost is a Pakistani romantic drama series first aired on Urdu 1. It has been directed by Shehzad Kashmiri and produced by Momina Duraid. This drama serial is based on Farhat Ishtiaq's novel of the same name.
Shehryar Shehzadi is Pakistani television drama series which was originally shown on the Urdu 1 and A-Plus Entertainment channels. This drama is a Mastermind Production, directed by Syed Ahmed Kamran and written by Zafar Imran.
Bhool is a 2014 Pakistani soap series that aired on Hum TV. It is directed by Asad Malik while written by veteran writer and poet Syed Wasi Shah. Series was produced by Momina Duraid at Gemstone Productions. It stars Sanam Chaudhry, Sarah Khan, Behroze Sabzwari, Fazila Qazi, Shehroz Sabzwari, Saleem Sheikh and Farah Shah in pivot roles. At 3rd Hum Awards series was nominated Best Soap Actor for Shehroz Sabzwari, Best Soap Actress for Sanam Chaudhry and Best Soap Series for Momina Duraid which she ultimately won for another production of hers Susraal Mera. This show was a popular daily series for HUM TV, leading in the timeslot.
Ishtiaq Ahmad, was a Pakistani fiction writer famous for his spy and detective novels in the Urdu language, particularly the Inspector Jamshaid series. He was influenced by the Urdu fiction writer Ibn-e-Safi.
Kaleem is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Events from the year 2019 in Pakistan.
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