Ahmad Bashir

Background

Ahmad Bashir was born in Aimanabad near Gujranwala (British India) on March 24, 1923.

Career

He was the father of leading television artiste Bushra Ansari and poet Neelam Bashir. He gained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Srinagar and went to Bombay for a career in acting but soon started writing for film magazines. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, he came to settle permanently into Pakistan.

Bashir died in Lahore of pancreatic cancer on December 25, 2004.

Connections

Friend:

Mumtaz Mufti