2. Biographies
• Feroz khan Noon from Memory (1966)
• Shaista Ikramul Jah from Purdah to Parliament (1963)
• Politicians, Generals and other men are more prominent in writing
biographies than the writers
3. Prose of Humor by Maya Jamil
• History of humorous prose from Mohammad Ali & Shaukat Ali’s
famous paper “Comrade” (1911 in Delhi).
• Phantom figures (Articles I.C.S Commissioner whom they called
minor deity.
• Anwar Mooraj, Omar Kureishi and Mr. Kayani
4. Khalid Hasan
• Used laughter as a safety valve in order to retain sanity
• A Mug’s Came (1968)
• The Crocodiles are Here to Swim (1970)
• Scorecard (1984)
• Give us back our Onions (1985)
• All of these are the Essays published in newspaper, but he had also
published them as a book
• “The Queen’s English, Whither English” Point out the defects of
Pakistani English. And in “The Queen’s English, Local Style” gave the
remedies.
5. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
• Not a humorist
• Travelogue outside India (1938): The world which he visited
especially The Bombay chronicle
• Opposes Japnese glamorization and Hitler’s jingoism
• Condemned colonial oppression and the oppression by Nazi’s to the
Jews
6. Omar Kureishi
• Cricket commentator, lives in Karachi
• Writer for Karachi newspaper The Dawn and The Star
• His first prose book was Black Moods (deals with the life of Karachi
during 15s)
• Second book was Out to Lunch (covers years between 1956 to 1958)
• Khalid Hasan’s work “Give me Omar Kureishi Any Time”
• His essay Common man he tries to find that common man for whom
our Politicians claim to be laboring
• The Rain and For The People
7. Anwar Mooraj
• Sand, Cacti and People (1960) shows his contribution in English
papers
• Knows German also
• His humor depends upon the events not on the situation
8. Haleem Abdul Aziz
• Nothing in particular & Nothing in Earnest (1967), Solo (1968),O
Bartender (1968), The Decayed (1968), Pop Writing (1975) many
others
• He uses Pakistani slangs in his English works and touch the taboo
topics to discuss like sex
• “A lady with a principle is like a lady with a stick”
9. Justice Malik Rustum Kayani
• Gave speeches which were enjoyed enormously by upper middle class
• These speeches have been reproduced in four books:
• Not the Whole Truth (1962)
• Half Truths (1966)
• Some More Truths (1971)
• A Judge May Laugh (1961)
• President of West Pakistan Association
• Speak in favor of independence of Judiciary when Ayyub Khan
became the dictator
