95th Birth Anniversary Of Yousufi Celebrated

The 95th birthday of renewed and legendary writer Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi was celebrated on Tuesday.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 4th Sep, 2018 ) :The 95th birthday of renewed and legendary writer Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi was celebrated on Tuesday.

Yousufi, a leading light of urdu literature, a satire and humour writer, was born on 4 September 1923 in an educated family of Jaipur, Rajasthan.

His father Abdul Karim Khan Yousufi was chairman of the Jaipur Municipality, and later Speaker of the Jaipur Legislative Assembly.

Yousufi completed his early education in Rajputana and earned B.A. from Agra University while M.A. Philosophy and LL.B from Aligarh Muslim University.

After partition of India his family migrated to Karachi, Pakistan.

He has served Urdu literature through his life.Yousufi has also served as the head of several banks and other national and international governmental and financial institutions, Private news channel reported.

He was awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 1999 and Hilal-i-Imtiaz Award in 2002, the highest literary honors by the Government of Pakistan.

He joined Muslim Commercial Bank in 1950, became Deputy General Manager. Joined Allied Bank Ltd in 1965 as Managing Director. In 1974 he became President of United Bank Ltd. In 1977 became Chairman of the Pakistan Banking Council. He was awarded Quaid-i-Azam Memorial Medal for distinguished services in banking.