Mir Bashir

Ahmad Bashir (Punjabi, Urdu: احمد بشیر; 24 March 1923 – 25 December 2004) was a writer, journalist, intellectual and film director from Pakistan. He was the father of leading television artists Bushra Ansari, Asma Abbas, Sumbul Shahid, poet and author Neelam Bashir, and Humayun Sheikh. Begum Parveen Atif, also an Urdu short story writer, columnist, travelogue writer in Urdu and Punjabi, was his sister. His wife Mehmooda was his partner since 1947. He was a close friend of Urdu writers Mumtaz Muf…