Khalid
Hasan
Khalid Hasan, journalist, writer and translator was born in Srinagar, Kashmir, and has written over 30 books. Ten collections of his own writings have appeared, including Scorecard, Give Us Back Our Onions, The Umpire Strikes Back, Private View, and Question Time. He has translated most of Saadat Hasan Manto’s best work. He has also published The Women’s Quarter, the selected stories of Ghulam Abbas. One of Pakistan’s best known columnists, Khalid Hasan worked for a specialised international news agnecy in Vienna from 1981-1991 and was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s first press secretary. After spending five years in the country’s foreign service, he resigned to return to the profession of journalism, barring a two-year break from 1997-1999 when he worked as head of the Shalimar Television Network. Currently he lives in Washington D.C.
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