Pakistani Readers discussion

Ibn e safi,mazhar kaleem and zaheer ahmad

Mazhar Kaleem was better than the founder Ibn e Safi. Haven't read Zaheer.

Well I enjoyed it in my childhood.


Also, highly recommended is true tales portion of Sarguzisht. It's realllly engrossing!! I have gained alot from it. Enjoyed since I was a kid and still do.

what books are these?

Oh I was obsessed with Imran series when I was 12 or 13.

My classmates used to read these but my family won't let me read "cheap" books (quality, not price :-() Does that emoticon look weird with the extra bracket?

@Zarish they were these pulpy, episodic mystery sci-fi sort of short stories. Don't know if they're still publishing them.

i have never heard of them. were they published in magzines like Taleem-o-Tarbiet?

zarish these novels are easily available at any bookstore and they are mystery novels with humour in them especially in novels written by Ibn e safi who first wrote these novels in 1950s and then various authors also wrote on Imran series which the most famous is mazhar kaleem ma and his novels are still widely read across Pakistan.

Ibn e Safi was great, but his novels were scarce back then and had to find them on old book stores. And the suspense, he creates, is better than any urdu writer I've read so far !

After umroo ayaar and Tarzan, I started reading Imran Series. Part of growing up. I used to trade the novels with other boys in my class. There wasn't even a single book in the city's libraries and book stores that I hadn't read. And there had always been more and more of those series. I think Mazhar Kaleem had had over 500 books published.

I've read all of Mazhar Kaleem's Imran Series. My childhood was spent reading it.

Same here.I really loved them a lot especially of Mazhar kaleem MA.

Mazhar Kaleem cashed in on the popularity of Ibn e Safi's characters.

I still read Ibn e Safi,but when I found Mazhar's books online recently,I couldn't like them anymore.Badly written.