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Inayat Ullah is a famous journalist, columnist, war freelancer, novelist and story writer. He served Urdu with more than one hundred books.

* Biography

Inayat Ullah was born in a Rajput family on 1st November 1920 in Gujar Khan (Punjab Pakistan). This region is known as the martial area because of military recruitment since British rule. The family of Inayat Ullah was traditionally a soldier. In 1936, he passed his matriculation examination and joined British army as a clerk. Inayat Ullah was in an infantry unit of the British army and fought at Burma front against Japan. In 1944, Inayat Ullah was taken prisoner by Japan, but he fled from the prison. After escaped from there, he wandered for two years in the forests of Burma. On his came to India, Inayat Ullah again joined the British army and sent by the authorities in Malaysia to crush the rebellion. On his arrival in Malaysia, Inayat Ullah saw the freedom movement of Malaysia nearly. He knew the rebellions are the freedom fighters. The entire Malaysians people considered them heroes, and they were supporting and backing up the freedom fighters. Inayat Ullah was of the opinion that the Malaysian nation has the right to liberty. He also wanted the freedom of India from the British rulers. At this time, he took a brave and fearless decision. He left the British army and met with the freedom fighters. In meanwhile, the British declared the Indian independence and partition of India. When he knew about this, he came back to his homeland.

On his coming to Pakistan, Inayat Ullah joined the Pakistan Air Force as a corporal. He was the part of the first group of Pakistan Air Force, who saluted the Quaid-E-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Father of the nation) on his arrival at Peshawar airport.

In 1965, the war started between Pakistan and India. Now the time started for Inayat Ullah. His spirit of a soldier took him on the borders. He took the pen as a weapon and became a war correspondent. Inayat Ullah was the only one war correspondent who was an eye witness of the war. He met the soldiers and to listen to the stories about the bravery of martyred. Regarding stories and event of 1965 war, Inayat Ullah also wrote some books.

In his career as a journalist, Inayat Ullah appointed as an editor of monthly Sayyara digest. He increased the publishing of the digest. Later, he established his publishing house named “Maktaba Dastan.” Inayat Ullah published a monthly magazine “Hikayat” which became one of the most published journals of Urdu. In these days, Inayat Ullah attracted to the historical novels writing. He wrote some popular historical novels. He also wrote on the topic of hunting stories, investigation, psychology, biographies, politics and social evils. He wrote more than one hundred books and hundreds of editorials. Inayat Ullah used many pen names as a writer like Meem Alf, Iltumsh, Ahmad Yar Khan, Sabir Hussain Rajput, Waqas, Mehdi Khan, Gumnam Khatoon and Inayat Ullah.

As a writer and journalist, Inayat Ullah established his identity. His patronage trained many authors (like Tariq Ismail Sagar) and played a significant role in the promotion of Urdu novels. He was also an asset of Urdu journalism, but he has no value in the circle of Urdu writers. Inayat Ullah disliked the most of the famous journalist and columnist of Urdu due to their preferences. It is the cause that a memorable writer is unable to remember the lines of columns, editorial or in seminars and other literary events.

Inayat Ullah considered the Sultan Saladin Ayubi as his hero. He has died on 16th November 1999 in Lahore, and that was the date of death of Sultan Saladin Ayubi. On the time of death, he was 79 years old. He has buried in Lahore where he lived his last life.

* Inayatullah’s Books/Novels

Hazrat Khalid Bin Waleed

Andlus Ki Nagin

Aur Neel Behta Raha

Dastaan Emaan Faroshon Ki

Do Pullon Ki Kahani

Doob Doob Kar Ubhri Nao

Char Dewari Ke Dareechon Say

Aik Kahani

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