LAHORE: Noted fiction writer novelist ibn-e-Safi was remembered on his 44th death anniversary here and across the country on Friday.
His original name was Asrar Ahmed. Safi was born in village Nara in Allahabad District of Uttar Pardesh in British India on July 26, 1928.
Ibn-e-Safi’s family migrated to Karachi where he started his own publication with the name ‘Israr’. His main works were a 125-book series Jasoosi Dunya and a 120-book Imran Series, with a small canon of satirical works and poetry. Ibne Safi died on this day in 1980 in Karachi.