Daily Times

Sir: While returning from Karachi after attending a book fair held at Expo Centre, Ishtiaq Ahmed, the writer of children’s detective novels, passed away at the Karachi airport departure lounge. He inspired two generations of children with his Inspector Jamshed series novels embedded with moral lessons during the 1980s and 1990s. In his autobiography Meri Kahani (My Story) published in 2015, he plainly narrated how tough life was for him and how he struggled to surface as a writer. He infused the reading habit in children and by doing so served mankind by instilling silently and calmly moral values in the new generation. A kind hearted man, who met everybody at the book fair with great humility, signed and wrote the famous verse of Maulana Jalalul Din Rumi on all his books “Zindigi be bandigi sharmindigi” (Life without devotion is disgrace) just one night before his death.
IFTIKHAR MIRZA
Islamabad