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Khadija Mastoor was born on December 11, 1927 in Bareilly, India.
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She wrote several collections of short stories. Her novel Aangan has highly been admired as a literary history in Urdu. Her younger sister Hajra Masroor is also an skillful short story writer
Khadija began writing short stories in 1942.
She has published five books of short stories and two novels. Her stories are based on social and moral values and as well as political.
During the writings she has no model before her, she looks around and simply describes her experiences. The thesis of Doctor of Philosophy has also been written on Khadija and on her literary work by a student at Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, A newspaper writes;
"Brimming with an urge for writing, both sisters wrote stories for a children magazine and were encouraged by the response they received from prestigious literary journals like Adbi Dunya.
Maulana Salahuddin Ahmad, editor of Adbi Dunyia published the stories with adoring remarks and an advice.".
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