Hajra masroor biography definition

          Hajra Masroor (Urdu: ہاجرہ مسرور; Hājrah Masrūr; 17 January – 15 September ) was a....

          Masroor lived from to and started writing in the early s, several years before Partition.

        1. Masroor lived from to and started writing in the early s, several years before Partition.
        2. Hajra Masroor (–) was one of the most celebrated Pakistani writers of Urdu short stories and narrative fiction.
        3. Hajra Masroor (Urdu: ہاجرہ مسرور; Hājrah Masrūr; 17 January – 15 September ) was a.
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        5. Hajra Masroor was one of the great Pakistani Urdu short story writers of the 20th century.
        6. Hajra Masroor

          Pakistani writer (1930–2012)

          Hajra Masroor (Urdu: ہاجرہ مسرور; Hājrah Masrūr; 17 January 1930 – 15 September 2012)[1] was a Pakistani writer who established herself with her short fiction stories, known as afsana in Urdu literature.[2][3] Her elder sister, Khadija Mastoor, was also an accomplished short-story writer and novelist.[4][5]

          Personal life

          Hajra Masroor was born on 17 January 1930 in Lucknow, British India to Dr.

          Tahawwar Ahmad Khan, who was a British Army medical doctor, and Anwar Jahan Begum, a published writer.[6] Her father had suddenly died after a heart attack at a young age of 38.[6] She had five sisters, including Khadija Mastoor, and a younger brother, Khalid Ahmad, who also became a poet, playwright and newspaper columnist.

          Her family was mainly raised by her mother. She began writing from her early childhood.[1]

          After independence of Pakistan in 1947, she