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Ferozepur, Bathinda, Lahore and Rawalpindi.
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Ahmed Hussain, Mohammad Mohsin, Mohammad Hussain, Mohammad Hassan, Mahmood Akhtar, Maqsoosd Ahmed and Maqbool Ahmed.
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Fatima Birjees, Fatima Tanveer, Ahmed Pervaiz, Tahir Mahmood, Ahmed Javed, Fatima Naheed, Ahmed Taufiq, Ahmed Tauqir,
Turkana Behjat and Farzana Tauheed.
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Khurshid Anwar, earned his Bachelor's degree in 1934 from the University of the Punjab, Lahore.
Graduated from the Law College Lahore. Practiced law in the circuit of the High Court of Lahore. Besides being a successful
attorney of his times, he was a writer, poet, radio talk show writer, farmer, sportsman, hunter and a philanthropist.
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He translated the masnavis of Maulana Room and rubayats of Omar Khayyam from Persian to
versified Urdu and English. He created and narrated famous Radio programs like "jis desh mein ganga behti hay", "baname
haq o insaf" (United Nations reports on Indian genocides in Kashmir), "pindi ki shikar gaheN", "kallar kahar",
"kala pahaR", "islam ka aftab chamka" and "aatishe namrood", to name a few of his numerous contributions to literature.
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| The Jilani Clan |
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| With his mother, Mrs. Abdul Haq and his family, on a trip to Murree. |
With fellow attorneys of the Rawalpindi Bar. Prominent are Khawaja Ahmed Hassan Josh, Mahmood Ahmed Manto, Sheikh Abdul
Rauf, Justcie Cahngaiz and Justice Mohammad Afzal Lone. Circa 1962.
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| With wife Sophia Sultana |
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| Newspaper Niwa'e Waqt's tribute to Khurshid Anwar for the Masnavee's versified translations. |
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| Masnavee page published in MaheNau. |
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| Another Masnavee page from MaheNau. |
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| A few pages from "Anvarat 1936" |
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| "chaugatta" or "domusafir" |
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| Originally written as "chaughatta", published as "do musafir" and various other pirated versions! |
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| With mother Begum Abdul Haq on way to Murree. |
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| The newly filled-in Rawal Dam. |
He devised a wonderful contraption to irrigate the barren lands of his farm in Rawalpindi! As the
water table was deep and erratic, he designed and placed a water well, and connected it to the nearby stream by an under the
ground tunnel, and installed a heavy pump. The constant water supply from the stream round the year, helped produce
four crops. It was a sight visited by many curious farmers from across the Potohar and the Punjab!
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| The Hybrid Tubewell at the Jilani famrs. |
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