Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi مشتاق احمد يوسفی |
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Born | Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi 4 August 1923 Farooqabad, Jaipur, India |
Occupation | Banker, Satire and Humour writer |
Nationality | Pakistani |
Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi D.Litt (HC), SI, HI (Urdu: مشتاق احمد يوسفی — Muštāq Ẹḥmad Yūsufī, born 4 August 1923) is an Urdu satire and humour writer from Pakistan. Yousufi has also served as the head of several national and international governmental and financial institutions. He received Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award in 1999 and Hilal-i-Imtiaz Award in 2002, the highest literary honours by the Government of Pakistan.
Yousufi was born in a learned family of Jaipur, Rajasthan on 4 August 1923. His father Abdul Karim Khan Yousufi was chairman of the Jaipur Municipality, and later Speaker of the Jaipur Legislative Assembly. Yousufi completed his early education in Rajputana and earned B.A. from Agra University while M.A. Philosophy and LL.B from Aligarh Muslim University. After partition of India his family migrated to Karachi, Pakistan . he has served urdu literature through his life.