ZAFAR Umar was a writer and police officer in British India. He is sometimes credited with writing Urdu’s first-ever detective novel Neeli Chhatri (the blue umbrella). But some critics say Neeli ...
He is considered the first Urdu writer to write quality books on George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky. He is also credited with having translated nearly a dozen ...
KARACHI: Eminent critic Dr Nasir Abbas Nayyar gave a lecture on ‘The Urdu Novel’s Nonexistence in Global Scenario: Truth or Figment of Imagination’ at the Arts Council of Pakistan on Friday evening.
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