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He was born on June 15, 1927 as Sher
Muhammad Khan (Urdu: شیر محمد خان) in tehsil Phillaur of district Jalandhar,
Punjab, India. His father hailed from Rajasthan. He did B.A. from Punjab
University in 1946 and M.A. from Urdu College Karachi (now Federal Urdu
University) in 1953. He was associated with various governmental services
including Radio Pakistan, Ministry of Culture and National Book Centre of
Pakistan. He also served UN for some time and this enabled him to visit a lot of
places and was the reason of his subsequent travelogues. Some of the places that
he visited includes Japan, Philipines,China ,Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia,
Malaysia, India, Afganistan, Iran, Turkey, France, UK and US. Insha got the
mentors like, Habibullah Ghazanfer Amrohvi, Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Khan and Dr.
Abdul Qayyum. He was also well versed in Arabic and Persian and Hindi. Insha
spent much of his time in Karachi. He died of Hodgkin's Lymphoma on January 11,
1978 in London.
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