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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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us shaam vo ruKhsat kaa samaa.N yaad rahegaa
us shaam vo ruKhsat kaa samaa.N yaad rahegaa
vo shahar vo kuuchaa vo makaa.N yaad rahegaa
vo Tiis ki ubharii thii idhar yaad rahegii
vo dard ke uThaa thaa yahaa.N yaad rahegaa
ham shauq ke shole kii lapak bhuul jaaye.nge
vo shamaa-e-fasurdaa kaa dhuaa.N yaad rahegaa
kuchh miir ke abyaat the kuchh faiz ke misare
ik dard kaa thaa jin me.n bayaa.N yaad rahegaa
jaa.N baKhsh sii thii us gul_barg kii taraavaat
vo lams-e-aziiz-e-do-jahaa.N yaad rahegaa
ham bhuul sake hai.n na tujhe bhuul sake.nge
tuu yaad rahegaa hame.n haa.N yaad rahegaa
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